“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
— Walt Whitman, book Fulles d'herba
Source: Leaves of Grass
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