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Henry Miller Quotes - Page 14

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Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

Men, Individuality, Way

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

Peace, Sides, Consciousness

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

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

Study, Crime, Mankind

Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

Hero, Fighting, Men

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

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

Sports, Suicide, Fashion

Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.

Distance, Space, Needs

Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

Death, Sex, War

Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Friendship, Power, Appreciate

Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and the grandeur which envelops the whole horizon. Often, when the clouds pile up in the north and the sea is churned with white caps, I say to myself: "This is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked out on from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look.

Men, Clouds, Years

Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.

Crazy, Struggle, Mad

Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

Tragedy, Equal, Situation

Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.

Sweet, Littles, Chance

Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world.

Book, Sight, Blood

Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

Lying, Doe, Moments

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

Strong, Sin, Repentance

Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.203, New Directions Publishing

For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.

Crazy, Men, Our World

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

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Damage Is Done, Joy, Why Not

Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

Knives, Fleeting, Flash

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

Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

Swim, Void, Planets

Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

Art, Book, Destiny

Tropic of Cancer ch. 1 (1934)

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

Art, Men, Enemy

Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

Home, May, Spirit

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

Paint what you like and die happy

Paint, Dies

I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.

Dying, Delirious

The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration; it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished.

Fall, Reality, Men

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