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I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must writer and write and write, even if everybody in the world advises you against it, even if nobody believes in you.

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
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Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.
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To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.
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How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
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I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.
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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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And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
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Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
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All growth is a leap in the dark.
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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
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Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined him to be. He came from the blue and returns to the blue. He has not perished, he is not lost. Neither will he be forgotten.
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Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
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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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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
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I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.
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