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Writing is its own reward.

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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There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
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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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It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
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Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity - I belong to the earth!
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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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We don't trust our five senses we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.
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When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.
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Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.
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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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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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If one believes, then miracles occur.
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have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.
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All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.
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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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Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
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I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
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