American - Author | December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Henry Miller
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
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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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Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
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Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
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Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
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The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
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Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
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