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Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
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
Writer
New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
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The purpose of life is to remember.
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The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
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Greece is the home of the gods they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.
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The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
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To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.
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People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.
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There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.
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If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.
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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
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It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
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The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.
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For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
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The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.
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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
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Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.
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Cluster together like stars!
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There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
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Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.
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Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
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