“We are accustomed to think of ourselves as a great democratic body, linked by common ties of blood and language, united indissolubly… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Talk is only a pretext for other, subtler forms of communication. When the latter are inoperative speech becomes dead. If two people… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The most difficult adjustment an expatriate has to make, on returning to his native land, is in this realm of conversation. The… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“We clutter the earth with our inventions, never dreaming that possibly they are unnecessary — or disadvantageous. We devise astounding means of… — 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 Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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 Image
“(...)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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Image
