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The purpose of life is to remember.

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
Purpose
Remember
Life

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There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
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Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
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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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Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.
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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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Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
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Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
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I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
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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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To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.
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The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.
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And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
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A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
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Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
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Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
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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 only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
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