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Maler, Schriftsteller, "Wendekreis des Krebses", "Sexus" (USA, 1891 - 1980).

Henry Miller · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Henry Miller wäre heute 133 Jahre, 3 Monate, 8 Tage oder 48.676 Tage alt.

Geboren am 26.12.1891 in New York
Gestorben am 07.06.1980 in Pacific Palisades/Kalifornien
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• Even before the music begins there is that bored look on people's faces. A polite form of self-imposed torture, the concert.

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• Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

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• Greece is the home of the gods.

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• I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

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• In every movement direction is more important than speed.

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• Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

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• Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene - nine-tenths of it.

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• Of nothing (in the U.S.) are you allowed to get the real odor or savor. Everything is sterilized and wrapped in cellophane.

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• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

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• Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

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• Sin, guilt, neurosis - they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

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• The American ideal is youth - handsome, empty youth.

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• The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

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• 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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• Those who fail in life are a long way from being idealists.

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• We do not talk-we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines, and digests.

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• When you forget to eat you know you're alive.

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• Celui qui n'a pas de succès dans la vie n'en est pas pour autant un idéaliste.

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• Dans chaque mouvement la direction est plus importante que la vitesse.

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• Etre civilisé veut dire avoir des besoins compliqués.

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