The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

Henry Miller
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The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. ✨ Henry Miller (1959). The Henry Miller Reader, p.251, New Directions Publishing
What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know th … ▶
The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it. ✨ Henry Miller (1956). A Devil in Paradise, p.49, New Directions P … ▶
You must be life for me to the very end, so he writes. That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not th … ▶
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs. ✨ Henry Miller (1969). Mémoires, Plaido … ▶

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