It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled.... It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea. 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.
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