We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
Henry Miller
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More quotes by Henry Miller
- 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.
- An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
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