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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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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
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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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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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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
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If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
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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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Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
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For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
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Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.
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The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
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No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
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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 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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Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim cheers today, hisses tomorrow utter forgetfulness in a few months.
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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
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At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.
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Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
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There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
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