“Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. From the beginning it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history… — 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
“If it was a mistake not to finish school (it wasn't!), it was an even worse mistake to go to work. ("Work!… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It is not difficult to be alone if you are poor and a failure. An artist is always alone – if he… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, for grander failures. I want the whole world to be out… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the ultimate sense, the world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's… — 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
