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" 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. "

Henry Miller

Place

Looking

True

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Good

Speak

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Henry Miller

Loud

Die

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

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" No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. "

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

" Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine. "

Henry Miller

Engine

Life

" I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. "

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

" 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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World

Want

" 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. "

" We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. "

" 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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Even

Frozen

" 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. "