Quote #39

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it.

More from Henry Miller

  1. I am glad to be a maggot in the corpse which is the world.
  2. The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.
  3. I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo.
  4. The trouble with Buddhism ?-- in order to free oneself of all desire, one has to desire to do so.
  5. The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed.
  6. Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you…
  7. 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…
  8. Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

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