The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.

—Henry Miller

About Henry Miller

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Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blends character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association,...

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You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

—Henry Miller

A man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

—Henry Miller

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I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!

—Henry Miller

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

—Henry Miller

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Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it.

—Henry Miller

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