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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.

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
Oneself
Convert
Seek
Condemn
Spring
Springs
Crime
Reject
Study
Rejects
Knowledge
Despise
Punishment
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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
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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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At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.
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If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.
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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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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
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Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.
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Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
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