All Henry Miller Quotes
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
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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.
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The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
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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.
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
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To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
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The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
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Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
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