Poet Henry Miller

Henry Miller

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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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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.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
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.
Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

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