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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. ↗

— Henry Miller

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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. ↗

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. ↗

— Henry Miller

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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. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. ↗

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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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. ↗

— Henry Miller

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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. ↗

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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