Henry Miller Quotes - Page 8

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• Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Teach, Significance

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

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  Heart, Tropic Of Cancer, Masochism

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

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• Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

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  Faith, Believe, Miracle

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

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  Crazy, World, Becoming

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

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  Men, Race, Enemy

  Tropic of Cancer (1934) p. 280

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• Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

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  Law, Miracle, Doctrine

  "Black Spring". Book by Henry Miller, 1936.

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• The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

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  Poetry, Speak, Nectar

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• Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.

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  Thinking, Bridges, World

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed!

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  Heart, Sunshine, Men

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

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  Stay Strong, Art, Philosophy

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

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  Believe, Miracle, Hummingbirds

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

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  Time, Drama, Creating

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

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• You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

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  Writing, Voice, Millions

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• We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power. What those powers that are in us may be no one has truly dared to imagine. That they are infinite we will realize the day we admit to ourselves that imagination is everything. Imagination is the voice of daring.

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  Lying, Live Life, Thinking

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

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• When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow, it is the abyss into which Satan was plunged. There is no climbing back, no ray of light, no sound of human voice or human touch of hand.

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  Pain, Regret, Fall

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

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• The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

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  Men, Weakness, Firsts

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• Example moves the world more than doctrine.

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  Moving, Example, Doctrine

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.183, New Directions Publishing

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• 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 because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.

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  Running, Believe, Greatness

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

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  Thinking, Wings, Bird

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

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• People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

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  Blood, People, Skins

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

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• If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more. I don't say that God is one grand laugh: I say that you've got to laugh hard before you can get anywhere near God. My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.

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  Laughing, Soul, Important

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, benture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness.

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  Artist, Animal, Men

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

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  Short Life, Long, Want

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

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• If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.

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  Book, Reading, Rain

  Henry Miller (2012). “Plexus (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.

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  Jobs, New York, Thug

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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