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Henry Miller

Virtues
Sin, guilt, neurosis -they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
3.0 · 13 votes · 85 reads
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Time
The American ideal is youth -handsome, empty youth.
3.7 · 9 votes · 136 reads
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Society
The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin de
4.4 · 42 votes · 89 reads
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Defects
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 scarce
4.9 · 28 votes · 175 reads
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Nature
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
4.6 · 23 votes · 58 reads
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Society
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
3.7 · 7 votes · 58 reads
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Various
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.
3.0 · 50 votes · 85 reads
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Government and Politics
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
4.9 · 49 votes · 55 reads
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Society
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
3.5 · 18 votes · 48 reads
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Thought and Reason
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
5.0 · 45 votes · 143 reads
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Society
The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosc
4.3 · 34 votes · 127 reads
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Nature
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
4.3 · 38 votes · 85 reads
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Virtues
The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
3.4 · 29 votes · 41 reads
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Feelings
The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
4.4 · 57 votes · 186 reads
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Feelings
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
4.4 · 56 votes · 106 reads
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Art and Culture
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
3.1 · 45 votes · 162 reads
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Thought and Reason
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
4.1 · 39 votes · 200 reads
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Thought and Reason
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
4.8 · 9 votes · 79 reads
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Thought and Reason
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
3.8 · 51 votes · 100 reads
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Nature
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
4.6 · 42 votes · 134 reads
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Art and Culture
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
3.3 · 35 votes · 94 reads
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Time
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.
4.7 · 59 votes · 99 reads
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Society
Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
4.4 · 18 votes · 72 reads
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Virtues
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
4.2 · 22 votes · 41 reads
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Nature
You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
3.8 · 11 votes · 154 reads
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