Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In this chthonian world the only thing of importance is orthography and punctuation. It doesn't matter what the nature of the calamity… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“She discovered what others know only too well in a cynical way, that people prefer to believe in and worship a god… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“To go to town, forty-five miles distant, we were obliged to hitchhike. In short, my earnings were just about to keep a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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
What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like… — 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
“Who am I? What am I doing here? I fall between the cold walls of human malevolence, a white figure fluttering, sinking… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“(The ass tells you everything about a woman, her character, her temperament, whether she is sanguine, morbid, gay or fickle, whether she… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“We clutter the earth with our inventions, never dreaming that possibly they are unnecessary — or disadvantageous. We devise astounding means of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“You have to get beyond pity, in order to feel from the very roots of your being. One can't make a new… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What I want is to open up. I want to know what’s inside me. I want everybody to open up. I’m like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One is ejected into the world like a dirty little mummy; the roads are slippery with blood and no one knows why… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“More and more the world resembles an entomologist's dream. The earth is moving out of its orbit, the axis has shifted; from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The earth is parched and cracked. Men and women come together like broods of vultures over a stinking carcass, to mate and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If I longed for destruction it was merely that this eye might be extinguished. I longed for an earthquake, for some cataclysm… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There is a theory that when a planet, like our earth for example, has manifested every form of life, when it has… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Christ will never more come down to earth nor will there be any law-giver, nor will murder cease nor theft, nor rape,… — 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
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War… — 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
“the flight which the poet makes over the face of the earth and then, as if he had been ordained to re-enact… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Build your cities proud and high. Lay your sewers. Span your rivers. Work feverishly. Sleep dreamlessly. Sing madly, like the bulbul. Underneath,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Music issuing like fire from the hidden chromosphere of pain, spore and madrepore fructifying the earth, navels vomiting their bright spawn of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“We defend with our lives the petty principles which divide us. The common principle, which is the establishment of the empire of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Each one is traveling his own way ad though the earth be rotting with good things, there is no time to pluck… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“All my life I have felt a great kinship with the madman and the criminal. Practically all my life I have dwelt… — 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