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.
From Henry Miller
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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