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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace… — 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
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
“All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes… — 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
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize… — 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… — 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
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
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
“(...)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
“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
“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
“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
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
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
“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
“Since then, of course, I have discovered what every madman in Paris discovers sooner of later; that there are no ready made infernos for… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“Looking back upon my career, I see myself as a person capable of undertaking almost any task, any vocation. It was the monotony and… — Henry Miller Copy Share
