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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
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New York City
New York
Genri Miller
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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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Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
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Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
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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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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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Music is the can-opener of the soul.
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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
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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 only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
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No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
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If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
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All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.
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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
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There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.
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To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.
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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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