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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.
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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Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
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The best technique is none at all.
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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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All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.
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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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Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.
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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
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Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
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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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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
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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.
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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.
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We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
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I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.
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By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
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