Henry Miller Quotes - Page 10

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• As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.

  Henry Miller

  Passion, Long, Missing

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

  Henry Miller

  God, Voice, Imagination

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Why change the world? Change worlds!

  Henry Miller

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.190, New Directions Publishing

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• Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

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  Reality, Names, Everyday

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

  Henry Miller

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Henry Miller, Robert Snyder (1974). “This is Henry, Henry Miller from Brooklyn: conversations with the author from the Henry Miller odyssey”, Nash Publishing Corporation

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• The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the contrary, we were made obtuse, we were wrapped in a fog of words and abstractions.

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  School, Fog, Vision

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

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  Art, Mind, Wake Up

  "Conversations with Henry Miller".

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• Even the idiot may have a message for us

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  May, Messages, Idiot

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

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  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit. A constant ferment, but it might just as well be going on in a test tube. Nobody knows what it's all about. Nobody directs the energy. Stupendous. Bizarre, Baffling. A tremendous reactive urge, but absolutely uncoordinated.

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  New York, Men, Thinking

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Strength, Lying

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

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  Fashion, Ocean, Reality

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• Develop an Interest in Life as you see it.

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  Passion, Interest In Life, Beautiful Soul

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• Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

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  Thinking, Serenity, Devil

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

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  Artist, Horizon, Literature

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.168, New Directions Publishing

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• Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

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  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will.

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  Art, Book, Character

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

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  Dream, Song, Writing

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• I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your conflicting points of view annihilated. You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual. You have to be carbonized and mineralized in order to work upwards from the last common denominator of the self. You have to get beyond pity in order to feel from the very roots of your being.

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  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Men, Paris

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• Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Law, Cannons

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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• History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

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  Time, Fall, Men

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.366, New Directions Publishing

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• To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

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  Men, Needs, Alive

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

  Henry Miller

  Reading, Luxury, Giving

  "Dear Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus".

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• Cluster together like stars!

  Henry Miller

  Stars, Together, Clusters

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