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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller

Man

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

Money

Man

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller

Vision

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.