Quote #40

The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.

More from Henry Miller

  1. Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it.
  2. The trouble with Buddhism ?-- in order to free oneself of all desire, one has to desire to do so.
  3. I am glad to be a maggot in the corpse which is the world.
  4. 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…
  5. I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo.
  6. Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
  7. The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed.
  8. I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world.

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