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
The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European,… — 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
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