HMHenry Miller

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Henry Miller

Life dates: 1891 AD — 1980 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1935 AD

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.

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02c. 1935 AD

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

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03c. 1935 AD

The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.

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04c. 1935 AD

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

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05c. 1935 AD

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

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06c. 1935 AD

The ordinary man is involved in action the hero acts. An immense difference.

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07c. 1935 AD

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

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08c. 1935 AD

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

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09c. 1935 AD

Like ships men flounder time and time again.

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10c. 1935 AD

We create our fate every day we live.

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11c. 1935 AD

The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.

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12c. 1935 AD

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

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13c. 1935 AD

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

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14c. 1935 AD

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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15c. 1935 AD

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

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16c. 1935 AD

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

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17c. 1935 AD

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

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18c. 1935 AD

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

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19c. 1935 AD

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

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20c. 1935 AD

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

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21c. 1935 AD

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

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22c. 1935 AD

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

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23c. 1935 AD

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

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24c. 1935 AD

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

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