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• The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.

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  Enemy, Quality, Realizing

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

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  Women, Heart, Nuts

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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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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  Unique, Egalitarianism, Vices

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

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  Retarded, Bits

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• Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

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  Peace, May, Abiding

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.404, New Directions Publishing

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• Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

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  Music, Beautiful, Opiates

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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• I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

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  Writing, Helping, God Help Me

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• I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

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  Fashion, Ocean, Reality

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• No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

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  Heart, Window Panes, Innovation

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• The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

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  New York, Sky, Cities

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• A world without hope, but no despair

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  Despair, World, Without Hope

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

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  Swimming, Faces, Drowning

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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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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  Everyday, Citizens, Legal System

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• Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.

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  Prayer, Refreshments

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• My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.

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  New York

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.

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  Christian, Jesus, Faithful

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• The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

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  Failure, Perfect, World

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.246, New Directions Publishing

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• The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

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  Civilization, World, Cradle

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

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  Two, World, Spaghetti

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• There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

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  Evil, Wickedness, Murder

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• Better to separate than never to marry.

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  Henry Miller (2007). “Plexus: The Rosy Crucifixion II”, p.457, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your world-cities. But tonight I would like to think of one man, a lone individual, a man without name or country, a man whom I respect because he has absolutely nothing in common with you - MYSELF. Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am.

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  Country, Men, Thinking

  "Black Spring".

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• In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

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  Witty, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.262, New Directions Publishing

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• We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.

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  Holiness, Kind, Holy

  Henry Miller (1963). “The Rosy Crucifixion”

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• A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

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  Lying, Book, Mind

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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