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• I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

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  Broken Heart, Past, Thinking

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

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• I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.

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  Crazy, Struggle, Mad

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

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  Profound, Honest, Quiet

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

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• I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

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  Writing, Lines, Action

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

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• Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

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  Art, Creativity, Goal

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.400, New Directions Publishing

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• For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

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  Suicidal, Artist

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

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• 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.

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  War, Men, Space

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

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  Love, Sweet, Wall

  Henry Miller (1963). “Black spring”, Grove Pr

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• The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

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  Song, Singing, Essentials

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

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• The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

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  Death, Sex, War

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

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  Lying, Doe, Moments

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• That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

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  Tragedy, Equal, Situation

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

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  Dream, Men, Soul

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• Paint what you like and die happy

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  Paint, Dies

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• I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

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  Poetry, Soul, Nests

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

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• When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

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  Reality, Chaos, Womb

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

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• The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

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  Freedom, Law, Differences

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured-disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui-in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.

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  Fear, War, Eye

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

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• Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

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  Strong, Sin, Repentance

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.203, New Directions Publishing

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• The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

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  Peace, Sides, Consciousness

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

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• The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

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  Study, Crime, Mankind

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and the grandeur which envelops the whole horizon. Often, when the clouds pile up in the north and the sea is churned with white caps, I say to myself: "This is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked out on from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look.

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  Men, Clouds, Years

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

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  Home, May, Spirit

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.205, New Directions Publishing

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• All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

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  Funny, Book, Reading

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

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  Swim, Void, Planets

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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