Henry Miller203 definitions
Henry Miller
Henry Miller
1891 – 1980
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40s (age) (n.) is an age when one starts feeling young.
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Acceptance (n.) is at root a matter (a quite difficult matter for an active spirit) of refraining from giving advice, refraining from meddling in the affairs of others, refraining even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life-so simple.
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Action (n.) is that to which any genuine philosophy will leads. And from action it will lead back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
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Action (n.) is a kind of risk-taking. One reason that so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
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Action (n.) is in the decisive act. The hero is one who acts. The ordinary man is involved in action.
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America (n.) is where potentially every man is presidential timber while in europe every man is potentially a zero, and becomes something or somebody only by virtue of an accident or a miracle.
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America (n.) is not young and vital but prematurely old, like a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
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The America (n.) is naive, optimistic, gullible, a product of a land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.
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The America (n.) is cut off from the world not by the ocean but by the American way of looking at things.
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The American flag (n.) is always two flags: 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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Analysis (n.) is absent of any curative powers. It merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
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Antagonism (n.) is always based on love which has not recognized itself.
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Art (n.) teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
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Art (n.) is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.
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Art (n.) 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.
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Art (n.) teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
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Art (n.) is the only realm where one is both master and slave at the same time.
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The Art of living (n.) is based on rhythm, on converting the give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death, good & bad, and right & wrong, into the dance of life.
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The Artist (n.) is a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.
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The Artist (n.) is a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.