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"What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?"

Miller, Henry on environment
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"Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?"

Miller, Henry on america
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"All history is the record of man's signal failure to thwart his destiny-the record, in other words, of the few men of destiny who, through the recognition of their symbolic rôle, made history."

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"History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time."

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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Nin, Anais on courage
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"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love."

Francis of Assisi, St. on peace
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I'm male from the United States and made my book on 14th February 2009.

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Reading[non-fiction preferred, fiction if it's good], writing, photography, dreams, music, dancing, history, philosophy, the universe. Favorite authors: Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Hunter S. Thompson.

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