Reads tagged with “Henry Miller”

Henry Miller on the Meaning and Mystery of Life

“This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can’t grasp it.”

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Henry Miller on Writing and Life

“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.”

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The Wisdom of the Heart: Henry Miller on the Art of Living

“On how one orients himself to the moment depends the failure or fruitfulness of it.”

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Henry Miller on Reading, the Life of the Mind, and How to Fix Education

“Our whole theory of education is based on the absurd notion that we must learn to swim on land before tackling the water. It applies to the pursuit of the arts as well as to the pursuit of knowledge.”

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Henry Miller’s 11 Commandments of Writing and His Daily Creative Routine

“When you can’t create you can work.”

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Henry Miller on Creative Death

“One aspect of our nature cannot be exalted above another, except and the expense of one or the other.”

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Henry Miller on Art, War, and the Future of Humanity

“It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.”

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Henry Miller on the Beautiful Balance of Giving and Receiving

“It’s only when we demand that we are hurt.”

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Henry Miller on Originality

“And your way, is it really your way?”

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Reads tagged with “Henry Miller”

“This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can’t grasp it.”

“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.”

“On how one orients himself to the moment depends the failure or fruitfulness of it.”

“Our whole theory of education is based on the absurd notion that we must learn to swim on land before tackling the water. It applies to the pursuit of the arts as well as to the pursuit of knowledge.”

“When you can’t create you can work.”

“One aspect of our nature cannot be exalted above another, except and the expense of one or the other.”

“It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.”

“It’s only when we demand that we are hurt.”

“And your way, is it really your way?”

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