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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.
Written by Henry Miller
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Written by Henry Miller
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Written by Henry Miller
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Written by Henry Miller
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Written by Henry Miller
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
Written by Henry Miller
Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
Written by Henry Miller
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Written by Henry Miller
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Written by Henry Miller
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
Written by Henry Miller
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
Written by Henry Miller
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Written by Henry Miller
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
Written by Henry Miller
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Written by Henry Miller
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Written by Henry Miller
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
Written by Henry Miller
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Written by Henry Miller
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Written by Henry Miller
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
Written by Henry Miller
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Written by Henry Miller
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.
Written by Henry Miller
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.
Written by Henry Miller
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Written by Henry Miller
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Written by Henry Miller
Actors die so loud.
Written by Henry Miller
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Written by Henry Miller
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
Written by Henry Miller
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
Written by Henry Miller
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.
Written by Henry Miller
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Written by Henry Miller

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