“Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?”
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“Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
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“All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
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The Starry Night
Famous Last Words #2 "The Sadness Will Last Forever." - Vincent Van Gogh Theo arrived in Auvers before Vincent Van Gogh died.; Theo was with Van Gogh until the very end. Theo recorded the events of the death in a letter to their sister Elizabeth; in the…
Famous Last Words #3
“How about this for a headline in tomorrow’s paper - French Fries”
Wisecracking American murderer James French as he sat in the electric chair.
“How about this for a headline in tomorrow’s paper - French Fries”
Wisecracking American murderer James French as he sat in the electric chair.
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Henry Miller (American author)
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Born : December 26, 1891
Died : June 7, 1980
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U.S. writer and perennial Bohemian whose autobiographical novels achieve a candour—particularly about sex—that made them a liberating influence in mid-20th-century literature. He is also notable for a free and easy American style and a gift for comedy that springs from his willingness to admit to feelings others conceal and an almost eager acceptance of the bad along with the good. Because of their sexual frankness, his major works were banned in Britain and the United States until the 1960s, but they were widely known earlier from copies smuggled in from France.
After settling in Big Sur on the California coast, Miller became the centre of a colony of admirers. Many of them were writers of the Beat generation who saw parallels to their own beliefs in Miller’s whole-hearted acceptance of the degrading along with the sublime.
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Born : December 26, 1891
Died : June 7, 1980
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U.S. writer and perennial Bohemian whose autobiographical novels achieve a candour—particularly about sex—that made them a liberating influence in mid-20th-century literature. He is also notable for a free and easy American style and a gift for comedy that springs from his willingness to admit to feelings others conceal and an almost eager acceptance of the bad along with the good. Because of their sexual frankness, his major works were banned in Britain and the United States until the 1960s, but they were widely known earlier from copies smuggled in from France.
After settling in Big Sur on the California coast, Miller became the centre of a colony of admirers. Many of them were writers of the Beat generation who saw parallels to their own beliefs in Miller’s whole-hearted acceptance of the degrading along with the sublime.
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"Suffering is unnecessary. But one has to suffer before he is able to realize that this is so. It is only then, moreover, that the true significance of human suffering becomes clear. At the last desperate moment, when one can suffer no more, something happens which is the nature of a miracle. The great wound which was draining the blood of life closes up, the organism blossoms like a rose. One is free at last...with a yearning for ever more freedom, ever more bliss. The tree of life is kept alive not by tears but the knowledge that freedom is real and everlasting."
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"I find myself wanting two things strongly...a fine natural life in the open air, with vigorous exercise, ruggedness, etc., and the most rarified spiritual sort of life at the same time."
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"From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity...creation."
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"I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge."
"The idea is, you know, you live from moment to moment...this moment decides the next step. You shouldn’t be five steps ahead, only the very next one. And if you can keep to that, you’re always alright. You see, but people are thinking too far ahead...you know what I mean? Think only what’s right there. Do only what’s right under your nose to do. You know? It’s such a simple thing and people can’t do it, you know."
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“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
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“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
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“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
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“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
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“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”
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“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
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“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”
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“Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.”
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“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
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