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• If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

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  Heaven, Found, Certainty

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.192, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

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  Travel, Anchors, Tourism

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

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  Art, Teaching, Goal

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

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• Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Order And Chaos, Score

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

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• Everything hinges on how you look at things

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  Looks, Hinges

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• Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.

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  Failing, Christ, Maximum

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.154, 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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• I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

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  Heart, Sunshine, Silence

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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

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  Yesterday, Flags, Half

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

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  Forever, Remains, Depends

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

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• Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

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  Running, Eye, Acceptance

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

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• A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

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  Inspirational, Lying, Book

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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• The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

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  Art, Good Life, Acceptance

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• The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

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  Goal, Life Is, Life Goal

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• Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

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  Nature, Men, Masters

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.175, New Directions Publishing

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• Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

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  Gratitude, Time, Perspective

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

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• We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

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  Criticism, Dull, Way

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.166, New Directions Publishing

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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.

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  Pain, Live Life, Writing

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.18, 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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• It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

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  Brother, Liars, Integrity

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• Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

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  Mistake, Whole Life, Whole

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.373, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

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  Way, Realizing, Better Life

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow.

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  Journey, Tomorrow

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

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• Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

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  Kings, Men, Profound

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

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