“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.”
Henry Miller
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“History is the myth, the true myth, of man’s fall made manifest in time.”
Henry Miller
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“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themsel”
Henry Miller
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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.”
Henry Miller
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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.”
Henry Miller
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“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.”
Henry Miller
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“The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.”
Henry Miller
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“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
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“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”
Henry Miller
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“An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
Henry Miller
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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?”
Henry Miller
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“Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It meansthat you entertain illusions. It’s a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.”
Henry Miller
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“The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.”
Henry Miller
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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.”
Henry Miller
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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 familiarthat when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.”
Henry Miller
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“The world is the mirror of myself dying.”
Henry Miller
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“Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”
Henry Miller
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“In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.”
Henry Miller
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“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.”
Henry Miller
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“The American ideal is youth –handsome, empty youth.”
Henry Miller
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
