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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words? ↗

— Henry Miller

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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

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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. ↗

— Henry Miller

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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. ↗

— Henry Miller

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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

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Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia. ↗

— Noah Taylor

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I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! ↗

— Paul Taylor

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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. ↗

— Henry Miller

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