Henry Miller

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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller

age

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

alone

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

art

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Henry Miller

art

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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art

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

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best

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

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communication

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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death

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

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death

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

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experience

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