For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one… — 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's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There are moments when the elixir of life rises to such over−brimming splendor that the soul spills over. In the seraphic smile of the Madonnas the soul is seen to flood the psyche. The moon of the face becomes full; the equation is perfect. A minute, a half−minute, a second later, the miracle has passed. Something intangible , something inexplicable,… — Henry Miller Copy Share
Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to… — 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
The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know.… — 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 “he doesn’t know what to do with his money.” For my part, I don’t see any better use to which one can put money. About such individuals one can’t say that they’re generous or stingy. They… — 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 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
