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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
Writer
New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
Men
Happiest
Materialism
Hopes
Determination
Resources
Alive
Happiness
Money

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
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No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
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For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.
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Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
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The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.
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New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
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We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
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Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.
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If one believes, then miracles occur.
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Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.
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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
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Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. The tragedy of Greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision.
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