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Henry Miller Quotes
«Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look»
Author: Henry Miller
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Balboa, Big Sur, California, Darien, Pacific, peak, Sur, the Pacific, the Peak
«The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.»
Author: Henry Miller
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proposition, The Deal, underwrite, underwrites, unquestioningly
«And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?»
«If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.»
Author: Henry Miller
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bunion, Christian Scientist, humiliation, scheme, trimmed, Twenty Five, wart, well-off
«All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself / civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.»
Author: Henry Miller
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Animal World, evasion, evasions, refused, The Animal
«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.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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arteriosclerosis, coupled, crippling, The Golden Age, thwarting
«The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.»