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Danh ngôn của Henry Miller (Sứ mệnh: 4)

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
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.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.