Quote #37

I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo.

More from Henry Miller

  1. The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed.
  2. I am glad to be a maggot in the corpse which is the world.
  3. 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…
  4. Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it.
  5. Perhaps the artist is nothing more than the personification of this universal maladjustment, this universal disequilibrium.
  6. The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.
  7. The Battle is endless...we who babble and froth at the mouth have been at it since eternity.
  8. The trouble with Buddhism ?-- in order to free oneself of all desire, one has to desire to do so.

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