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If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
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
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Society
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
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The city grows like a cancer I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.
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The purpose of life is to remember.
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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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Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
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Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
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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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Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.
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We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
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We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.
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To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.
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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
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Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
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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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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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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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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
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They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark.
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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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