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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
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
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Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
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I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.
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Writing is its own reward.
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To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.
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If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
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All growth is a leap in the dark.
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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.
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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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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.
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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 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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For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
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Cluster together like stars!
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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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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
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There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.
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