#ak

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. ↗

— Henry Miller

#music #opiate #seriously #take #too

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bad one #bit #good #idea #people

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. ↗

— Henry Miller

#difference #doctrine #evil #example #forces

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. ↗

— Henry Miller

#invigorating #madness #makes #more #ones

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ↗

— Henry Miller

#give #inhabit #lack #make #orders

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. ↗

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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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. ↗

— Henry Miller

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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. ↗

— Henry Miller

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