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What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

Henry Miller
Acceptance, Evil, Joy
Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Henry Miller
Power, Evil, Analysis
Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.191, New Directions Publishing

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

Henry Miller
Evil, Wickedness, Murder

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

Henry Miller
Evil, Progress, Different
Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

Henry Miller
Moving, Differences, Evil
Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.183, New Directions Publishing

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