There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
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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
The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
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One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty.
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