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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
Category: Art Author: Henry Miller
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I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was.
Category: Bicycling Author: Henry Miller
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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Category: Body Author: Henry Miller
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We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Henry Miller
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Category: Change Author: Henry Miller
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Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. 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, to discover what is already there.
Category: Confidence Author: Henry Miller Source: Sexus
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History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.
Category: History Author: Henry Miller
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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Category: Leadership Author: Henry Miller
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Category: Life Author: Henry Miller
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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: Henry Miller
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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.
Category: Perfection Author: Henry Miller
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The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Category: Perspective Author: Henry Miller
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New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
Category: Places Author: Henry Miller
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We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.
Category: War Author: Henry Miller
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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.
Category: Wise Words Author: Henry Miller Source: The Books in My Life
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