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

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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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Looking
Wrong
Nothing
Way
World

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Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. The tragedy of Greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision.
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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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No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
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Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
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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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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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Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.
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People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.
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The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing on the contrary, we were made obtuse, we were wrapped in a fog of words and abstractions.
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Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
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To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
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Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.
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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
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Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
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The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean-when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
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Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
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Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
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