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As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
Henry Miller
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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
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Painter
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New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
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Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?
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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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At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.
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Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.
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There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.
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If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
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What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?
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But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.
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Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
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Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.
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Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.
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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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Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
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Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
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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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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
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I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
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