06 March 2009

A simple quote

I recently finished The Air Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller and came across this quote near the end of the book. I found it beautiful and wanted to share it with someone - anyone.

"The world Awake!

Just to repeat that to yourself five times a day is enough to make an anarchist out of you. How would you awaken the world - if you were a musician? With a sonata for rusty can openers? Have you ever thought about it? Or would you rather remain asleep?

A conscious humanity!

Have you ever tried to imagine what that would mean? Be honest. Have you ever paused for one minute of your life to think what it would mean for humanity to become fully conscious, to be neither exploitable nor pitiable? Nothing could possibly hinder the advance of a conscious humanity.
Nothing will."
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Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945)

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