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  "When you find you can go neither backward nor forward, when you discover that you are no longer able to stand, sit or lie down, when your children have died of malnutrition and your aged parents have been sent to the poorhouse or the gas chamber, when you realize that you can neither write nor not write, when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. The nature of society is conformity; the language of the creative induvidual is freedom, Life will continue to be a hell as long as the people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality. Switching from one ideology to another is a useless game. Each and every one of us is unique, and must be recongnized as such. The least we can say about ourselves is that we are American of French, or whatever the case may be. We are first of all human beings..." This is from the preface to Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by the one and only Henry Miller and in many ways embodies much of what I love about his writing and philosophy. His sledgehammer type impact coupled with a sort of cryptic spirituality and optimism. I know this is not much of a review but i think it is best to present Henry Miller in his own words.

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