The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other,… — 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… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold. — 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
Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy,… — 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
Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into… — 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
“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
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