I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“For seven years I went about, day and night, with only one thing on my mind – her. Were there a Christian… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The act of dreaming, like a draught of fresh air in an abandoned house, situates the furniture of the mind in a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A man, when he's burning up with passion, wants to see things; he wants to see everything, even how they make water.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“give you a nostalgia for a people and a soil you have never known, but which is in your blood, mysteriously there… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Nothing would be regarded as obscene, I feel, if men were living out their inmost desires. What man dreads most is to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens in the brain, except the gradual rust and detrition of the cells. But in the mind, worlds unclassified, undenominated, unassimilated,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Still I can't get it out of my mind what a discrepancy there is between ideas and living. A permanent dislocation, though… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The principal aim underlying this work is to render homage where homage is due, a task which I know beforehand is impossible… — 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
“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
