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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JEFFREY FRY You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write twe... BIZ STONE Trust might be the only solution. NEIL TIMOTHY P. EDILLON To love is to act. VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is neve... ANUJ SOMANY Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. MARK TWAIN With just about every script, in almost every corner of the set, I was faced with the truth: This wa... DIANE GUERRERO Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own. WARREN EYSTER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER That you did something bad is not enough to make you a bad person SOTONYE ANGA Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world. DEBASISH MRIDHA It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The most important one is... JON J. MUTH To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. ... L. RON HUBBARD A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Be always excited about being alive,because life is good. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ... GERMANY KENT My Life is boring without God GENEREUX PHILIPUX You see death is a tool to degrade and destroy people, I see it as a life lesson that I use to empow... ANGEL RAMON MEDINA it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets. SHELLI THOMPSON How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving. CRAIG GROESCHEL Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. DEAN INGE Only God is good." "We can make good works, We can be called good folks We can ... MAC CANOZA I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sak... DOROTHY PARKER Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us. 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HENRY MILLER Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future,... HENRY MILLER It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand ... HENRY MILLER In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. HENRY MILLER 1) Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2) Start no more new books, add no more new mate... HENRY MILLER Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too... HENRY MILLER Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so r... HENRY MILLER The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. HENRY MILLER [...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandesc... HENRY MILLER Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we wo... HENRY MILLER Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines ... HENRY MILLER Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war. HENRY MILLER I have found God, but he is insufficient. HENRY MILLER If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want t... HENRY MILLER I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am... HENRY MILLER Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was mean... HENRY MILLER Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living ... HENRY MILLER In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to c... HENRY MILLER I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to... HENRY MILLER You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet n... HENRY MILLER الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يس... HENRY MILLER el mundo nunca deja morir de hambre a una mujer guapa. HENRY MILLER Es extraño. Había llegado a resignarme tanto a aquella vida sin ella y, sin embargo, si pensaba en... HENRY MILLER Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas. HENRY MILLER There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy HENRY MILLER We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. HENRY MILLER I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ... HENRY MILLER Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. HENRY MILLER The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way HENRY MILLER Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring... HENRY MILLER One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifli... HENRY MILLER