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It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, i thought I was an artist. I no longer think about it. I am. There are no more books to be written, thank God.
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I venerate van Gogh. He was a remarkable human being, a man who knew about love. His work reflects a spirit filled with light, even though his life was a tragedy in many ways.
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That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
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Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
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The capital of the new planet—the one, I mean, which will kill itself off—is of course Detroit.
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It is true I swim in a perpetual sea of sex but the actual excursions are fairly limited.
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
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The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.
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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
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Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing... Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
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He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
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What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin— to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.
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Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
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The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition, the world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
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I have never once thought of work in connection with Mobile. Not anybody working.
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I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.
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The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.
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When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
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All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.
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As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie. The dawn is breaking on a new world, a jungle world in which lean spirits roam with sharp claws. If a am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself.
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A guy who's always interested in the condition of the world, and changing it, either has no problems of his own, or refuses to face them... not wanting to face things of his own nature.
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The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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Born:
December 26, 1891
Died:
June 7, 1980
(aged 88)
Bio:
Henry Valentine Miller was an American writer.
Known for:
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Tropic of Capricorn (1938)
Sexus (1949)
Black Spring (1936)
The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)
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