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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
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
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
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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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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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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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Better to separate than never to marry.
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Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.
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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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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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There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.
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My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world.
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Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.
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We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
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The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
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But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.
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Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.
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Keep your exclamation points under control!
Henry Miller
Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
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The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.
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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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Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
Henry Miller
