“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
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
“(...)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
“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
“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
“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
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
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
“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
“Since then, of course, I have discovered what every madman in Paris discovers sooner of later; that there are no ready made infernos for… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“Looking back upon my career, I see myself as a person capable of undertaking almost any task, any vocation. It was the monotony and… — Henry Miller Copy Share
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