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• To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

  Henry Miller

  World, Ghost, Madmen

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• ...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.

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  Believe, Miracle, Noses

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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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  Order, Giving, Redemption

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.325, New Directions Publishing

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• What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.

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  Hands, Earth, Want

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.397, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Dark

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• The cancer of time is eating us away

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  Time, Cancer, Eating

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

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• I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

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  Men, Feels Just, Crooks

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

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  Mind, Expect Nothing, Made

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

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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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  Fear, Inspiration, Giving

  Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

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• The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize it the moment we open our eyes. We don't have to make it a Paradise-it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. The man with the gun, the man with murder in his heart, cannot possibly recognize Paradise even when he is shown it.

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  Eye, Heart, Gun

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• There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

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  Perspective, World, Way

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.351, New Directions Publishing

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• Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.

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  Beer, Men, Thinking

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• Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

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  Reality, Order And Chaos, Score

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

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• Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.

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  Dedication, Giving

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• It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

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  Stressed, Needs, Metamorphosis

  Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

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• We live at the edge of the miraculous.

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  Inspirational, Literature, Miraculous

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

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  Change, Learning, Balance

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• From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.

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  Reading, Men, Done

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

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• The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

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  Men, Imperfection, Important

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• Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to the adjoining county, city or state, but to your immediate surroundings. Forget Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and all the others. Do your part to the best of your ability, regardless of the consequences. Above all, do not wait for the next man to follow suit.

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  Jesus, Men, Russia

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Inspirational, Running, Believe

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

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  Writing, Men, Trying

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

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• Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

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  Acceptance, Simple, Hands

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

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  Life, Positive, Law Of Attraction

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

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  Friendship Love, Next, Opinion

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

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