The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He’s like a hero come back from the war, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams. Wherever he… — 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
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Directly across the street the Ciné Combat offers its distinguished clientele Metropolis.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to… — 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
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In this sort of hair-trigger eternity I felt that everything was justified, supremely justified; I felt the wars inside me that had… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,… — 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
