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When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

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
Addicted
Travel
Forever
Often

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I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.
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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
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By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
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Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.
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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
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Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
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The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
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Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.
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We don't trust our five senses we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.
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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
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I think someday you're going to be a great writer, he said. But he added maliciously, first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.
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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
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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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Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.
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Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
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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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For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
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