Henry Miller Quotes - Page 6

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• What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

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  Acceptance, Evil, Joy

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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• We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

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  War, Common Sense, Shadow

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to find the whole universe embodied and enshrined in the living image of another! Adolescent, we say. Rot! This is the germ of the future life, the seed which we hide away, which we bury deep within us, which we smother and stifle and do our utmost to destroy as we advance from one experience to another and flutter and flounder and lose our way.

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  Self, Way, Germs

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• I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.

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  Sex, Want, Bits

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

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  Men, Creation Of Man, Actors

  Henry Miller (1978). “Quiet days in Clichy and The world of sex: two books”, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

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  Prison Life, Literature, Crime

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

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• The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.

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  Perspective, Soul, Different

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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• Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.

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  Night, Earth, Creation

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.

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  Life Lesson, Men, Doe

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

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  Forever

  "Feeding The Travel Addiction Beast: The Ladder Of Addiction" by William D. Chalmers, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

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  Passion, Responsibility, Worry

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.

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  Falling In Love, Mean, Thinking

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved for the dullard. It is the very opposite of creation, which is play… The part of me which was given up to work, which enabled my wife and child to live in the manner which they unthinkingly demanded, this part of me which kept the wheel turning - a completely fatuous, ego-centric notion! - was the least part of me. I gave nothing to the world in fulfilling the function of breadwinner; the world exacted its tribute of me, that was all.

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  Children, Opposites, Play

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• For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

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  Adventure, Self, Space

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

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  Expression, Growth, Decay

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

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• Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.

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  Ocean, Order, Rivers

  Henry Miller (1958). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.207, New Directions Publishing

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• Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

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  Life, Humility, Literature

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• One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

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  Reason Why, Reason, Stifling

  Henry Miller (1969). “The Books in My Life”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos about him an order which is his own, to sow strife and ferment so that by the emotional release those who are dead may be restored to life, then it is that I run with joy to the great and imperfect ones, their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.

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  Running, Art, Emotional

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

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  Death, Moving, Men

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

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  Money, Night, Crowds

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

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  Work, Believe, Ambition

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.205, New Directions Publishing

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• Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

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  Philosophy, Facts, Action

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

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  Miracle, Looks

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• For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

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  Thinking, Water, Miracle

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

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