"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

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Source : Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

Henry Miller

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“Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.”

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“I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.”
“I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?”
“I confess I prefer to engage with pictures which I've chosen myself out of the welter of unidentified pictures, without the intrusion of too much personal context - Ilike to be a detective, and dislike being an impresario.”

Source : "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". Art South Africa Interview, artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.
“In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourselfâ€”your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.”
“I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.”
“It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.”
“Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse”

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