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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
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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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
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Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim cheers today, hisses tomorrow utter forgetfulness in a few months.
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By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
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My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.
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It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.
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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 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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I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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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 had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
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The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
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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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Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.
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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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I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
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The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
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If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.
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When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.
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I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must writer and write and write, even if everybody in the world advises you against it, even if nobody believes in you.
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