Henry Miller Quotes - Page 5

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• The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

  Henry Miller

  Inner Peace, Mind, Fulfillment

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

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  Farce, Leprosy, Saws

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

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  Stars, Dancing, Flesh

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)

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  Reality, Destiny, Suffering

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• To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.

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  Sex, Hair, Breathing

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.

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  Gratitude, Tasks, World

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• Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

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  Reality, Swim, Frightened

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

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  School, Order, Purpose

  Henry Miller (2007). “Plexus: The Rosy Crucifixion II”, p.599, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

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  Flow, Should, Compare

  Henry Miller (1958). “The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

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  Hero, Men, Differences

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.167, New Directions Publishing

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• I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul.

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  Running, Mirrors, Blood

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• At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

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  Giving Up, Heart, World

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

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  Ideas, People, Politics

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

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  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

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  Found, Ifs

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.

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  Artist, Giving, Grace

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.

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  Writing, Artist, America

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

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  Falling In Love, Cynical, Forgiving

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

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  Art, Opposites, Understanding

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.193, New Directions Publishing

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• Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity - I belong to the earth!

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  Men, Humanity, Principles

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

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• Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

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  Men, Stories, Endless

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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  Music, Lonely, Loneliness

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

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  Life, Frozen, Assets

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.359, New Directions Publishing

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• Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

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  Creating, Looks, Kind

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• The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

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  History, World, World History

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