All Henry Miller Quotes
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
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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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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.
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
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Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
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Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
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No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
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When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
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