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" I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. "

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

" Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. "

" Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. "

" If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. "

" Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. "

Henry Miller

Back

Creation

" One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. "

" Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. "

Henry Miller

Mystery

Learn

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

" We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. "

" Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. "

Henry Miller

End

Art

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. "

" Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. "

" What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? "

" Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. "

" The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. "

" Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. "

" If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more. "

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Want

" The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. "

" Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. "

" Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. "

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Frozen