"I wanted to feel the blood running back……" — Henry Miller
"I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think."
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261 Quotes by Henry Miller
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
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But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation,…
— Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
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Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation...
— Ludwig von Mises
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story…
— Winston Churchill
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
— Winifred Holtby
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Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the…
— Adolf Hitler
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young,…
— Bertrand Russell
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now…
— Charles Darwin
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where…
— Robert Boyle
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Nature abhors annihilation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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