Quote by Henry Miller
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his ow

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. – Henry Miller

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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. – Henry Miller

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work
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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. – Henry Miller

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Excess
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. – Henri Poincare

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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. – John Stuart Mill

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There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. – Alice Meynell

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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy. – Hamlin Garland

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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