"What I secretly longed for was to disentangle……" — Henry Miller
"What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of these accumulating experiences which were mine only by force of inertia required a violent effort. Now and then I lunged and tore at the net, but only to become more enmeshed. My liberation seemed to involve pain and suffering to those near and dear to me. Every move I made for my own private good brought about reproach and condemnation. I was a traitor a thousand times over."
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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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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
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