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Henry Miller Quotes
«Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.»
«Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Literature
| Keywords:
Beautiful Music, develop, interesting, literature, throbbing, throbs, treasures
«The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Security
| Keywords:
artificial, chop, chopping, chop off, give off, in the mind, limbs, security
«The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
condemn, convert, Crime and Punishment, despise, loathe, loathed, loathes, punishment, reject, springs, The Knowledge
«It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
American, American Express, democratic, disease, expresses, herd, herding, level, reducing, The American, The Herd, tyranny, unique, vice
«Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
fruit, fruit tree, fruit trees, guilt, one and the same, sin, Tree, tree of knowledge
«We have two American flags always: 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.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
American flag, American Revolution, anarchy, flags, Flag of, revolution, The American Revolution, the poor, under control
«Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
agitator, Agitators, blasphemous, delusion, demagogue, demagogues, enlightenment, loot, looting, maniacal, mob, mobilize, mobilized, mobilizes, mobilizing, newspaper, peoples, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, pushing, quack, quacks, recklessly, represents, Society of, superabundant, vulgar
«If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
anchored, anchors, arriving, departing, destination, eternally