I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling,… — 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
I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. — 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
