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• Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which everything is washed away but that which is new and more substantial even than life - reality.

  Henry Miller

  Memories, Ocean, Sleep

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

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• The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. The first quivering word he puts to paper is the word of the wounded angel: pain.

  Henry Miller

  Pain, Live Life, Writing

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Men, Thinking

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

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• What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

  Henry Miller

  Sex, Together, World

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

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• Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.

  Henry Miller

  Yesterday, Flags, Half

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• 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

  Communication, Writing, Important

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

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• Work on one thing at a time until finished.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, One Thing At A Time, Finished

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

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• A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

  Henry Miller

  Peace, Giving Up, Our World

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• He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

  Henry Miller

  Farce, Leprosy, Saws

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.

  Henry Miller

  Past, World, Gestures

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

  Henry Miller

  Trying, Resistance, Problem

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• Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Moving, Hero

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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• When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

  Henry Miller

  Psychosis, Silence, Fans

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• It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Destiny, Suffering

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• We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

  Henry Miller

  Stars, Dancing, Flesh

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

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  Inner Peace, Mind, Fulfillment

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.

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  Gratitude, Tasks, World

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• Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

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  Self Control, Conformity, No Hope

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• Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

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  Sex, War, Obscenity

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• We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, Giving, Grace

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

  Henry Miller

  Found, Ifs

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

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  Opportunity, Wonderful, Offers

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

  Henry Miller

  Flow, Should, Compare

  Henry Miller (1958). “The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.

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  Sex, Hair, Breathing

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

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• America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.

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  Writing, Artist, America

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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