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" To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. "
Henry Miller
World
Thought
Enough
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" Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. "
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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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" In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. "
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" Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. "
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" 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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Want
More
" 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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Become
Laws
" Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. "
Henry Miller
Mystery
Accept
Learn
" 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
Me
" The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. "
Henry Miller
Great
Work
Communication
" In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. "
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Out
Act
Actor
" If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. "
Henry Miller
Become
Day
One Day
" 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. "
Henry Miller
Life
Yourself
People
" The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. "
Henry Miller
Leader
Way
Need
" And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words? "
Henry Miller
Divine
Words
Potential
" 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. "
Henry Miller
Revolution
Rich
Control
" 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. "
Henry Miller
Evil
Dead
Dangerous
" 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. "
Henry Miller
Life
Two
Defeat
" 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. "
Henry Miller
Mind
Man
Him
" 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. "
Henry Miller
Direction
Limits
Men
" True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. "
Henry Miller
Beyond
Strength
Life
" The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. "
Henry Miller
World
Up
Skeleton
" What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? "
Henry Miller
Long
Lives
Matter
" Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' "
Henry Miller
Work
Will
Why
" One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. "
Henry Miller
New
Place
Way
" We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. "
Henry Miller
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Our
Read
" It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. "
Henry Miller
Off
Looking
World
" 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
More
" The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. "
Henry Miller
Love
Enough
Get
" In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. "
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Horizon
Knowledge
Field
" The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. "
Henry Miller
Concert
Form
Torture