“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
A fragment of Miller's unfinished book on D. H. Lawrence, originally published in the London literary journal Purpose.
Source: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) "Creative Death", p. 2
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American novelist 1891–1980Related quotes
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Man and Language (1966)
Context: The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows that from the forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. What is said in it constitutes the common world in which we live. … The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it — what is said.
Source: posthumous, Astract Expressionist Painting in America, p. 64, in an unpublished letter of Gorky