Henry Miller Short Quotes

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Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it.

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The American ideal is youth – handsome, empty youth.

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Nobody sees with his eyes alone; we see with our souls.

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I am glad to be a maggot in the corpse which is the world.

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The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.

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The old South was plowed under. But the ashes are still warm.

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Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

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Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

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The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

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To be generous is to say yes before the man even opens his mouth.

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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

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My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.

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There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

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The real leader has no need to lead—he is content to point the way.

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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

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To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

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The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.

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The wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

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Even if one's whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

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History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

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There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

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The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

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Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.

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Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

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The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

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