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How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
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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New York City
New York
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The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.
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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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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
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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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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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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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Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
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The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
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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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Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
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The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.
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If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.
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Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
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Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.
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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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We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
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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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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
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