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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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Loneliness

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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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It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
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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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Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
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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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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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The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
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The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.
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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
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Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.
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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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At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.
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What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.
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Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
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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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I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.
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Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
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