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Very Quotes by Henry Miller
- One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
- Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the…
- The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication…
- You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of…
- 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…
- There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved…
- With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had…
- If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more.…
- The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate…
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