“I can never go back on what I've written. If it was not good, it was true; if it was not artistic,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life,… — 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
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The age demands violence, but we are getting only abortive explosions. Revolutions are nipped in the bud, or else succeed too quickly.… — 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
Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is… — 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
You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Revolutions are nipped in the bud or else succeed too quickly. Passion is quickly exhausted. Men fall back on ideas, comme d'habitude.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It’s like a man in the trenches again: he doesn’t know any more why he should go on living, because if he… — 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
“I detest all books which run chronologically, which commence at the cradle and end with the grave. Even life doesn't run that… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying… — 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
