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Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.
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
Earth
Whirls
Unknown
Endless
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Creation
Night
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To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
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The city grows like a cancer I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.
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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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Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
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A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
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The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
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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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Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.
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It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
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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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My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.
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