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The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. ↗

— Henry Miller

#form #induced #polite #self #torture

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. ↗

— Henry Miller

#condition #disturbed #either #face #forever

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. ↗

— Henry Miller

#carries #dangerous #dead #different #evil

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. ↗

— Henry Miller

#crime #his #lives #over #prisoner

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

— Henry Miller

#been #confounded #death #entered #ever

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

— Henry Miller

#arts #least #mind #serviceable #waking

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

— Henry Miller

#always #dies #gets #over #skeleton

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. ↗

— Henry Miller

#incarnate #order #put #us #world

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. ↗

— Henry Miller

#appears #enslaved #familiar #fear #guise

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

#capable #could #enough #idea #killing