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Henry Miller

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
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Henry Miller is saying that even if humanity fails completely on Earth, human efforts and conflicts will continue beyond this planet. While military leaders focus on specific battlefields, the true scope of human struggle and activity extends across the entire universe.

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