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Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

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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New York City
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
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The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
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All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.
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Keep your exclamation points under control!
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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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As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
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Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
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Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.
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I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.
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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
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