“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I picked up a book and I read. You can get something out of a book, even a bad book ...… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I wandered aimlessly through this muddy lane bespattered with blood, fragments of the past detached themselves and floated listlessly before my eyes,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself! — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It is the great mass of mankind, the mob, the people, who create the permanently bad times. The world is only the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture killing and re-creating, death… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem - to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“To move forward clinging to the past is like dragging a ball and chain. The prisoner is not the one who has… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Why do we wear out so quickly, when the elements of which we are composed are indestructible? What is it that wears… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“But that was a long time ago and since then a crab has been gnawing at my vitals. All this began in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I had no time to make a world of my own: I had to stay fixed like Atlas, my feet on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Everything that belongs to the past seems to have fallen into the sea; I have memories, but the images have lost their… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The moment I stepped on the American boat which was to take me to New York I felt I was in another… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“At no time in the history of man has the world been so full of pain and anguish. Here and there, however,… — 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
“What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing… — 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
“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I had no time to make a world of my own. I had to stay fixed, like Atlas, my feet on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Every time I pass the concierge's window and catch the full icy impact of her glance I have an insane desire to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world 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
