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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Henry Miller
Inspirational, Progress, Adaptation
Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.251, New Directions Publishing

What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Henry Miller
Progress, Insane, Enlightenment
Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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

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