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There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

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
World
Perspective
Looking
Wrong
Nothing
Way

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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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The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.
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The purpose of life is to remember.
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For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
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You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.
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Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.
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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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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
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I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
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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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I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.
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If one believes, then miracles occur.
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Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.
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If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
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Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.
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