“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”

—  Henry Miller, book Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

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American novelist 1891–1980

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