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Results from Cole's Quotables:

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980), "The Colossus of Maroussi" (1941)

Results from Poor Man's College:

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

Results from Internet Collections: 20th Century Quotations:

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

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 (1891 - 1980), The Books in My Life

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