To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth-I count that something of a miracle.
("Tropic of Cancer")
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We have been educated to such a fine or dull point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.Henry Miller
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
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As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
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Art 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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