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" The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. "
Henry Miller
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" The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. "
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" Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. "
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" Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. "
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" Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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