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Thursday, June 8, 2017

Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart, quotes



“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.”

"Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it."
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"I believe that one has to pass beyond the sphere and influence of art. Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. Most artists are defeating life by their very attempt to grapple with it. They have split the egg in two. All art, I firmly believe, will one day disappear. But the artist will remain, and life itself will become not ‘an art,’ but art, i.e., will definitely and for all time usurp the field. In any true sense we are certainly not yet alive."




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