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" The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. "
Henry Miller
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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. "
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" The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. "
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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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" 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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" What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? "
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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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" Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. "
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" The world is the mirror of myself dying. "
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" Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. "
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" The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. "
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" 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. "
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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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" When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. "
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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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" I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. "
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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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" 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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" The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. "
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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?' "
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" Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. "
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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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" Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. "
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" The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. "
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