A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want… — 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
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
The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it… — 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
“He’s like a hero come back from the war, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams. Wherever he… — 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… — 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
I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. — 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
If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to… — 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
France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul; never once… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in… — 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
