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" 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. "
Henry Miller
Love
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Real
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" 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. "
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" The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. "
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" Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. "
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" 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. "
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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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" We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. "
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" The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. "
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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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" The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. "
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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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" An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. "
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" Develop interest in life as you see it; in 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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" 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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" It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. "
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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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