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Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
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
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
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To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.
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Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
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The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
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Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.
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When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
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