Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The act of dreaming, like a draught of fresh air in an abandoned house, situates the furniture of the mind in a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“a lucid french idea that gauges right through your drunkenness and leaves you swimming helplessly in the past, in a fluid dream… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I am a man who would live an heroic life and make the world more endurable in his own sight. If, in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He’s like a hero come back from the war, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams. Wherever he… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One can wait a whole lifetime for a moment like this. The woman whom you never hoped to meet now sits before… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“More and more the world resembles an entomologist's dream. The earth is moving out of its orbit, the axis has shifted; from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Christ will never more come down to earth nor will there be any law-giver, nor will murder cease nor theft, nor rape,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The dreamers dream from the neck up, their bodies securely strapped to the electric chair. To imagine a new world is to… — henry miller Copy Share Image
“In the moment all is dear to me, dear that in this logic there is no redemption, the city itself being the… — 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