There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao… — 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
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint,… — 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
“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
