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Henry Miller Quotes

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.
Henry Miller

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Category:
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Date of Birth:
December 26, 1891
Date of Death:
June 7, 1980
Nationality:
American
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Select Henry Miller Quotations:
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Henry Miller

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
Henry Miller


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