Quote by Henry Miller
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. – Henry Miller

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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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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. – Henry Miller

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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

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I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed. – Janice Dickinson

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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. – George Washington

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If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. – Simeon Strunsky

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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I dont deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but dont we just as often draw the wrong ones? – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

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