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Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Henry Miller
Fear, Inspiration, Giving
Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

Henry Miller
Fear, Reality, Tragedy
Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.335, New Directions Publishing

For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured-disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui-in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.

Henry Miller
Fear, War, Eye
Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Henry Miller
Fear, Men, Matter
Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.

Henry Miller
Fear, Dark, Men
Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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