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Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
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
Henri Miller
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For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
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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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Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?
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The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.
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For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.
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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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To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
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It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
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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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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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