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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
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New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
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Remember
Life
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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
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The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. 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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We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
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If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
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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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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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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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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
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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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As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
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All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.
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I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
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The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.
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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.
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