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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

Henry Miller

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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
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Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.
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If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
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What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.
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Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
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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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Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.
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If one believes, then miracles occur.
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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
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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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Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.
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You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.
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There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.
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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
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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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Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.
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Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
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