Quote #36

The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed.

More from Henry Miller

  1. Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my co…
  2. I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo.
  3. Perhaps the artist is nothing more than the personification of this universal maladjustment, this universal disequilibrium.
  4. I am glad to be a maggot in the corpse which is the world.
  5. The Battle is endless...we who babble and froth at the mouth have been at it since eternity.
  6. Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it.
  7. The Happiest peoples, it is said, are those which have no history. Those who have a history, those who have made history seem only to have …
  8. The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.

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