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Quotes by Henry Miller
- The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
- The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
- The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
- The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
- The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
- 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.
- 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.
- True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
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