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Heart Quotes by Henry Miller

15 Heart quotes by Henry Miller

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For readers who appreciate unfiltered honesty, Henry Miller’s fifteen verses cut straight to the core of desire and yearning. His gritty, visceral style lays bare the complexities of love, making each line feel like a confession whispered in the night.

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“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart.”

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At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.

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There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

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In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

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It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the…

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Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of…

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The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know.…

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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a…

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Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint,…

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No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao…

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At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I…

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I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the…

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“She wouldn’t remember that at a certain corner I had stopped to pick up her hairpin, or that, when I bent down…

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If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is…

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I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my…

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“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,…

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“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.”

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The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should…

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They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

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“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented…

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“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the…

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“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass…

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“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say…

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Paint what you like and die happy

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She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like…

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“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.”

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“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water…

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“Since then, of course, I have discovered what every madman in Paris discovers sooner of later; that there are no ready made infernos for…

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“Looking back upon my career, I see myself as a person capable of undertaking almost any task, any vocation. It was the monotony and…

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“The word in your mouth is anarchy.”

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