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Henry Miller quote: "If you were married to a dipsomaniac, would you pretend that..."

If you were married to a dipsomaniac, would you pretend that the mania for alcohol was perfectly harmless?

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(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented itself. Nothing that happened to me thus far had been sufficient to destroy me; nothing had been destroyed but my illusions(...) Henry Miller
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Patriotism ruins history."
Patriotism ruins history. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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