The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Maybe I only thought I was in love. Maybe I was simply hungry, lonely, a clay pigeon any one could put away… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I could put up with heartbreaks and abortions and busted romances, but I had to have something under my belt to carry… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Not a single object seems to possess a practical use. The antechamber itself seems useless, a sort of vestibule to a barn,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There’s something obscene in this love of the past which ends in breadlines and dugouts. Something obscene about this spiritual racket which… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“No stone was laid upon· another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thing has been… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — 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
To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap...it drives me nuts sometimes... I want… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a… — 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
“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.… — 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
“The Buddhas and the Christs are born complete. They neither seek love nor give love, because they are love itself. But we… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Again the dance hall, the money rhythm, the love that comes over the radio, the impersonal, wingless touch of the crowd. A… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because… — 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
