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Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Henry Miller

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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
Writer
New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
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Wanted

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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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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.
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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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What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
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There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
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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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I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
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We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
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But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.
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If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
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I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
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The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.
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Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
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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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Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.
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