Quote by Henry Miller
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. – Henry Miller

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Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. – Henry Miller

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Music
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Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadnt the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. – Henry Miller

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Superstition
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Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now… – Henry Miller

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Torture
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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Creation

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one. – Thomas Fuller

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Creation

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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Creation

Its a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didnt consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. – Samuel Levenson

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Creation

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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesnt do soul food. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. – George Bernard Shaw

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The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide. – Charles R. Brown

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell

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