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Revolt

By: Henry Miller

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Jan 14, 2025
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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

—Henry Miller

Each one individually must revolt against a way of life which is not his own. The revolt, to be effective, must be continuous and relentless.

It is not enough to overthrow governments, masters, tyrants: one must overthrow his own preconceived ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust. We must abandon the hard-fought trenches we have dug ourselves into and come out into the open, surrender our arms, our possessions, our rights as individuals, classes, nations, peoples.

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