“Taboos, though unadmitted, are potent. What is it that people fear? What they don't understand. The civilized man is not a whit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Fear, hydra-headed fear, which is rampant in all of us, is a hang-over from lower forms of life. We are straddling two… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than… — 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
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“At that moment I rejoiced that I was free of possessions, free of all·ties, free of fear and envy and malice. I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“How we hate to admit that we would like nothing better than to be the slave! Slave and master at the same… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I see how we ourselves stand before the future, divided between hope and fear. But at least we know that there is… — 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
