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

  Henry Miller

  Work, Believe, Ambition

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

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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.

  Henry Miller

  Reason Why, Reason, Stifling

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

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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.

  Henry Miller

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

  Henry Miller

  Philosophy, Facts, Action

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

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• Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

  Henry Miller

  Important, Way, Storytelling

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

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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.

  Henry Miller

  Passion, Responsibility, Worry

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.

  Henry Miller

  Men, White Man, Mexican

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Stars, Eye

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• If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Lasts, Speak

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• Writing, like life itself,
  is a voyage of discovery.

  Henry Miller

  Nature, Writing, Discovery

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

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• My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.

  Henry Miller

  Curiosity, Hunger

  Henry Miller (2007). “Plexus: The Rosy Crucifixion II”, p.61, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

  Henry Miller

  Tree, Joy, Done

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Forever, Humanity

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.205, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

  Henry Miller

  Country, Divorce, Men

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• Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.

  Henry Miller

  Yield, Joy, Produce

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Keep your exclamation points under control!

  Henry Miller

  Exclamation Points, Emotion, Exclamation

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• Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Destiny, Work Out

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

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• When you can't create you can work

  Henry Miller

  Writing

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

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• To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

  Henry Miller

  Song, Guitar, Singing

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

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• With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding.

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  Book, Reading, Hands

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• My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort

  Henry Miller

  Regret, Effort, World

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• All growth is a leap in the dark.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Dark, Growth

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Light, Whole

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.210, New Directions Publishing

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• The world is the mirror of myself dying.

  Henry Miller

  Death, Mirrors, Dying

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

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• Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

  Henry Miller

  Insane, Literature, Madness

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.180, New Directions Publishing

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