She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It was just the human fatality of things, a cancer worse than blame, or hate or love.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“to love or be loved is no crime. the really criminal thing is to make a person believe that he or she… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Don't expect me to be sane anymore. Don't let's be sensible. It was a marriage at Louveciennes—you can't dispute it. I came… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I don’t care what happens. I love you and that’s what I wanted to say over the phone. That’s what I wanted… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I understood then why it is that Paris attracts the tortured, the hallucinated, the great maniacs of love.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“To make absolute, unconditional surrender to the woman one loves is to break every bond save the desire not to lose her,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It was the end for me. And yet not an end. In all the years which have since elapsed she remains the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in profusion, and inventors, discoverers, explorers -… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I was born the 26th of December. . . Arrive by dint of perseverance, but step by step. . . Tenancy to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be given or taken away; nothing has been added or subtracted; nothing increased or diminished. We stand on the same… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Whoever, through too great love, which is monstrous after all, dies of his misery, is born again to know neither love nor… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I study you so much to discover the possible flaws, the weak points, the danger zones. I don’t find them—not any. That… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I know we were conjugating the verb love like two maniacs trying to fuck through an iron gate.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What is a fanatic? One who believes passionately and acts desperately upon what he believes. I was always believing in something and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One can live without friends, as one can live without love, or even without money, that supposed sine qua non. One can… — 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
