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Henry Miller Inspirational Quotes (242)

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Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
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There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
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The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.
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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
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My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.
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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
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Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined him to be. He came from the blue and returns to the blue. He has not perished, he is not lost. Neither will he be forgotten.
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The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
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A world without hope, but no despair
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I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you.
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After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
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We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
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Writing is its own reward.
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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
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When you can't create you can work
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Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
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I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.
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Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity - I belong to the earth!
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To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.
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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
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There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
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If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.
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