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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
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
Genri Miller
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
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We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
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For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.
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The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
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Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
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There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.
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What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
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There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
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All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.
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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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Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity - I belong to the earth!
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For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
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But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.
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New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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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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