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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
― Henry Miller

“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”
― Henry Miller

“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy”
― Henry Miller

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
― John Updike

“How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?”
― John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich

“Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.”
― John Updike

“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone”
― John Updike

“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. Henry Miller”
― Henry Miller

“A good artist must also have a streak of insanity in him, if by insanity is meant an exaggerated inability to adapt. The individual who can adapt to this mad world of to-day is either a nobody or a sage. In the one case he is immune to art and in the other he is beyond it.”
― Henry Miller

“The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.”
― Henry Miller

“Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi