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For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that,
time
nor space nor even deeds matter.
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Even if one's whole life were a mistake, there is always
time
to change.
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The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a
time
for play and a
time
for work, a
time
for creation and a
time
for lying fallow. And there is a
time
, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean-when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
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When into the womb of
time
everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
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Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the
time
out of death and disintegration.
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The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same
time
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I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same
time
: The world of art is the only such realm.
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Vlaminck and Utrillo were very good friends, drinking buddies. One day they attend a funeral. They're walking behind the hearse in a procession, and they're having a great
time
conversing with one another. They are completely engrossed when suddenly one asks the other, 'Say, don't you smell something funny?' They look up and they're walking behind a garbage truck! They'd lost the hearse in the middle of their enthusiastic conversation.
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There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our
time
is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.
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I felt free and chained at the same
time
- like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.
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Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than
time
.
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This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny,
Time
, Love, Beauty... what you will.
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I've spoken many
times
about the Japanese woman. I've praised her again and again. But I have to tell you that I think the Japanese man is the worst. The women are such delicate creatures and they're treated abominably by the men. The Japanese men are pigs - even worse than American men.
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On the meridian of
time
, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.
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History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in
time
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I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission,
time
enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
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We are swimming on the face of
time
and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.
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Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our
time
" - and of all
time
.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
Henry Miller
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Born:
December 26, 1891
Died:
June 7, 1980
(aged 88)
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