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Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.
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
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Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
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We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.
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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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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
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My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world.
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Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
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The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
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We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.
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I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.
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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
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To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.
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There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.
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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 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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Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
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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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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
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