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No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry Miller
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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
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If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
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We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.
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Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
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The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.
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The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.
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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.
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Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.
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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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The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
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We don't trust our five senses we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.
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There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.
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What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
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I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.
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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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I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.
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By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
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The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.
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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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It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
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