Henry Miller Quotes

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• ...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
• The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker…
• The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
• The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
• An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
• If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures,…
• We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under…
• The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
• I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
• Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
• Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
• Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
• We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
• Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
• One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
• One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
• True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

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