I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the moment all is dear to me, dear that in this logic there is no redemption, the city itself being the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I had just made the realization that life is indestructible and that there is no such thing as time, only the present.” — 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
“I was alive. But I was alive without a memory, without a name; I was cut off from hope as well as… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When one spends what he has on himselef, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What if at the last moment, when the banquet table is set and the cymbals clash, there should appear suddenly, and wholly… — 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
The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One never thinks of China, but it is there all the time on the tips of your fingers and it makes your… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In that moment, I lost completely the illusion of time and space: the world unfurled its drama simultaneously along a meridian that… — 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
“There’s something obscene in this love of the past which ends in breadlines and dugouts. Something obscene about this spiritual racket which… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One can wait a whole lifetime for a moment like this. The woman whom you never hoped to meet now sits before… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there… — 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
“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
