The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I reached out for something to attach myself to—and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself,… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say… — Henry Miller Copy Share
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“Since then, of course, I have discovered what every madman in Paris discovers sooner of later; that there are no ready made infernos for… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“Looking back upon my career, I see myself as a person capable of undertaking almost any task, any vocation. It was the monotony and… — Henry Miller Copy Share
