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Henry Miller


American
December 26, 1891
Author
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We live at the edge of the miraculous.


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The world is the mirror of myself dying.


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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.


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The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.


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Tags: Form Self Concert
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.


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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.


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


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Tags: Way He Need
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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.


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Tags: Because Life Fact
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The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.


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Tags: Up Always World
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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Tags: Life Live Means
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One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.


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Tags: Never Things Way
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
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Tags: Legal Over Often
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
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Tags: Any Back Fact
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
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Tags: Who More Only
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
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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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Tags: Because Our Us
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
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Tags: Who Our Make
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
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I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
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Tags: Chance Had Been
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
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Tags: Death Life Been
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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Tags: Age Way Which