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Letter "H" » Henry Miller Quotes
«True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Dedication,
Strength,
Truth
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dedicate, dedicates, dedicating, devotion, one to, permits, submission, submissions
«I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.»
«Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...»
«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.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
critics, democratic, educators, enjoying, incapable, in short, In the Realm, our critics, realm, rely, Something Different, The Blind
«All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Growth
| Keywords:
dark a, In The Dark, leap, leapt, leap out, spontaneous, The Dark, unpremeditated
«When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.»
«If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.»
«The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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clings, clung, committed, crime, over and over, prisoner, The One, The Prisoner, The Prisoner of
«The world is the mirror of myself dying.»
«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.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
a bit, bit, lowbrow, lowbrows, murderer, politician, ready, sacrificed, sake, slaughtered, slaughtering, slaughters
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