The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And inevitably there always crept into our discussions the figure of Whitman, that one lone figure which America has produced in the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And again that big, bushy thing of hers worked its bloom and magic. It began to have an independent existence for me… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain… — 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
“Naturally, I said. You’re always the same person. You don’t change from one milieu to another. You’re honest and open. You could get… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There is a theory that when a planet, like our earth for example, has manifested every form of life, when it has… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Life said Emerson, "consists of what a man is thinking all day."If that be so, than my life is nothing but a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“At that moment I rejoiced that I was free of possessions, free of all·ties, free of fear and envy and malice. 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
“The vast body of literature, in every domain, is composed of hand-me-down ideas. The question — never resolved, alas! — is to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“All my life I have felt a great kinship with the madman and the criminal. Practically all my life I have dwelt… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the… — 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
When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“But it is not emancipation that the great majority seeks. When pressed, most men will admit that it takes but little to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“How we hate to admit that we would like nothing better than to be the slave! Slave and master at the same… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Still I can't get it out of my mind what a discrepancy there is between ideas and living. A permanent dislocation, though… — 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
“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
