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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Henry Miller
Order, Confusion, Understanding
Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Henry Miller
Art, Opposites, Understanding
Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.193, New Directions Publishing

Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.

Henry Miller
Writing, Acceptance, Understanding
Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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