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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
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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Painter
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New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
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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 world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
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To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
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Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
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The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.
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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
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I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.
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Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
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Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.
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It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.
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Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.
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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
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