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Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry Miller
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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
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New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
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Chaos
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I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.
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Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.
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A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. 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 the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
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All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.
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Greece is the home of the gods they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.
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I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.
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The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
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The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished.
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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
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All growth is a leap in the dark.
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There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
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All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.
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I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
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Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
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Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
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Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
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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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We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.
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