All Henry Miller Quotes
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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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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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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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
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Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
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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.
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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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Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
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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 distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
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