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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
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New York City
New York
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I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.
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I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
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I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.
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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
Henry Miller
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.
Henry Miller
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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We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.
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Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
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Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
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Writing is its own reward.
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When you can't create you can work
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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
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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.
Henry Miller
I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
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It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.
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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
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Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?
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