"The prisoner is not the one who has……" — Henry Miller
"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."
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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 Clings Quotes
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one of 117 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How…
— Arthur Symons
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
— Lucretius
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Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
— Honore de Balzac
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's…
— Sri Aurobindo
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You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for…
— Khalil Gibran
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in…
— Jeff Cooper
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Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris…
— Anne Monroe
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In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that…
— Jacquetta Hawkes
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It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand…
— Lord Byron
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This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or…
— Stephen Batchelor
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