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Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller

Age

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Henry Miller

Knowledge

Ignorance

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

Henry Miller

Pornography

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.