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" 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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" The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. "

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" Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' "

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

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

" We live at the edge of the miraculous. "

" The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. "

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

" 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. "

" And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. "

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

" Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. "

" It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

Henry Miller

World

Want

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

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

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

" Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. "

" The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. "

" The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. "

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World

Skeleton

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

" It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. "

Henry Miller

Good

Speak

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

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

" Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. "

" Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. "