The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,… — 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
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 didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,… — 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