One is ejected into the world like a dirty little mummy; the roads are slippery with blood and no one knows why it should be so. Each one is traveling his own way and, though the earth be rotting with good things, there is no time to pluck the fruits; the procession scrambles toward the exit sign, and such a panic is there, such a sweat to escape, that the weak and the helpless are trampled into the mud and their cries are unheard. Henry Miller
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  1. What's a fuck when what I want is love?

  2. Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

  3. 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.

  4. The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

  5. Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

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