Henry Miller quotes - page 3

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. (Henry Miller)

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

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There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books.

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It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'

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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

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Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

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If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

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I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

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To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. (Henry Miller)

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.

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

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The cancer of time is eating us away.

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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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What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.

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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

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

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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. (Henry Miller)

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

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Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

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I have found God, but he is insufficient.

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Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.

Henry Miller

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Henry Miller

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Occupation: American Author
Born: December 26, 1891
Died: June 7, 1980
Quotes count: 294
Wikipedia: Henry Miller

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