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To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

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
Life
Fullest
Paint
Live
Love

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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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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
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You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.
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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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To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.
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If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.
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To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
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Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.
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People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.
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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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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
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Greece is the home of the gods they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.
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The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
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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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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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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
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I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
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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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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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