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We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
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New York City
New York
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What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.
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The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.
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You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
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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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Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
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How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
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Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
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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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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
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As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
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