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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. Art

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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. Art

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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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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

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Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

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What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

By Henry Miller
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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We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

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We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

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We live at the edge of the miraculous.

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We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

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We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

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Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

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To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

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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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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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The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

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The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

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The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

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The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

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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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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

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