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I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
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
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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
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Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
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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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Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
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I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you.
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Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.
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Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?
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Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.
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Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined him to be. He came from the blue and returns to the blue. He has not perished, he is not lost. Neither will he be forgotten.
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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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Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.
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What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
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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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We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
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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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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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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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The vast difference between astrology and other sciences, if I may put it thus, is that astrology deals not with facts but with profundities. The solid ground on which the scientist pretends to rest gives way, in astrology, to imponderables.
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As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
Henry Miller
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
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