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
If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested… — 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
The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your… — 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 had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion… — 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