I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

Henry Miller
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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?' ✨ Henry Miller (1970). The Air-conditioned Nightmare, p.172, New Directions Publi … ▶
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 (1969). Mémoires … ▶
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to find the whole universe embodied and enshrine … ▶
For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world. ✨ Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). Genius and lust: … ▶
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one. ✨ Henry Miller (1964). Henry Miller on Writing, … ▶

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