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Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched�love for instance � we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.
The Waves
If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
A Moveable Feast
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
The Sun Also Rises
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them � that is the tragedy of life.
A Literate Passion: Letters of Ana�s Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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