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It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.
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
New York
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Music is the can-opener of the soul.
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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
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The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
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I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.
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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
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Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
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Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.
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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.
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The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.
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Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.
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We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
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He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.
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The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.
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But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
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I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.
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The best technique is none at all.
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have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.
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