To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it. — 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
