Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Author: Henry Miller

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The only thing we never get enough of is love, and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it no matter where it leads him.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world, which is crazy.

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

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.