I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been… — 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
Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I had moment of ecstasy and I sang with burning sparks. I sang of the Equator, her red-feathered legs and the islands… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap...it drives me nuts sometimes... I want… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Perhaps my grandfather was right, perhaps I was spoiled in the bud by the books I read. But it is ages since… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“At that moment I rejoiced that I was free of possessions, free of all·ties, free of fear and envy and malice. I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I have been a little embarrassed always. But less so the last time. It will all disappear. You have such a delicious… — 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 recreating, death… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The dreamers dream from the neck up, their bodies securely strapped to the electric chair. To imagine a new world is to… — henry miller Copy Share Image
“The great incestuous wish is to flow on, one with time, to merge the great image of the beyond with the here… — 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
“1) Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to… — 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
“It is getting toward dinner time and people are straggling back to their rooms with that weary, dejected air which comes from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I see how we ourselves stand before the future, divided between hope and fear. But at least we know that there is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown. — 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
