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It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
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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Brushes
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Happens
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We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
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When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.
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I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.
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The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly they underwrite it with their lives.
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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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Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
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I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you.
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To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.
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Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
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Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
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For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
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I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
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To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
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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.
Henry Miller
When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.
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When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
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All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Henry Miller
But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.
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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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