“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The ovarian world is the product of a life rhythm. The moment a child is born it becomes part of a world… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself! — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“...the art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem - to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Heroism and obscenity appear no more important in the life of the universe than the fighting or mating of a pair of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I thought I had found a living volcano, a female Vesuvius. I never thought of a human ship going down in an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I look out again at the sun-my first full gaze. It is blood-red and men are walking about on rooftops. Everything above… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger 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
