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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
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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
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And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
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After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
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There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
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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.
Henry Miller
I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
Henry Miller
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
Henry Miller
Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
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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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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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The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
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Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
Henry Miller
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
Henry Miller
The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.
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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
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Keep your exclamation points under control!
Henry Miller
I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.
Henry Miller
