Dedication is not what others expect of you. It is what you can give to others — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — 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
Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit,… — 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
The vast difference between astrology and other sciences, if I may put it thus, is that astrology deals not with facts but… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that… — 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
