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From Quotes by Henry Miller
- We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
- Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
- It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
- Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
- What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
- My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into…
- Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to…
- What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the…
- Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to…
- One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been…
- 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…
- What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane…
- We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
- It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones,…
- Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More…
- From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life…
- To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to…
- Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to…
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