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Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

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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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We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
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Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
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People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.
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Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
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I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.
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The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
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Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
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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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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
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Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.
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I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.
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Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
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To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
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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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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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