"The legal system is often a mystery, and……" — Henry Miller
"The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens."
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261 Quotes by Henry Miller
Henry Miller has 261 quotes on this site.
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...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.…
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is…
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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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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich,…
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We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it…
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The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably…
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if…
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
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More Baffling Quotes
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Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.
— Herb Caen
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The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but…
— Unknown Author
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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
— Walker Percy
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...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart…
— William Crookes
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When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always,…
— Dean Koontz
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A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy,…
— Christine Schutt
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The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the…
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
— Niklaus Wirth
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Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately…
— David Chalmers
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Early youth is a baffling time
— Bruce Catton
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons…
— John T. Flynn
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology…
— Prince Charles
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