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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
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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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Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
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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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As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
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We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
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Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.
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The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.
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When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.
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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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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
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At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.
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The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.
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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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If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
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The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.
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Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
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Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
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