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'Life', said Emerson, consists in what a man is thinking all day. If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

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
Life
Intestine
Emerson
Intestines
Consists
Bigs
Nothing
Men
Thinking

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We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
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As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
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Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity - I belong to the earth!
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I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.
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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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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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You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.
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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
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By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
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We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
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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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Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
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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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There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.
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