I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue… — 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
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of… — 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