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Henry Miller Quotes - Page 4

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To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

Live Life, Love Is, Paint

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

Acceptance, Simple, Hands

Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.

Reading, Men, Done

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

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

Life, Moving, Hero

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

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

Life, Men, Thinking

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

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Self Control, Conformity, No Hope

...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.

Believe, Miracle, Noses

To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.

Past, World, Gestures

Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

Communication, Writing, Important

Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.246, New Directions Publishing

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.

Sex, Hair, Breathing

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

A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

Peace, Giving Up, Our World

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

Farce, Leprosy, Saws

Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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

Curiosity, Hunger

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

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

Trying, Resistance, Problem

Imagination is the voice of the daring.

Voice, Imagination, Daring

It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)

Reality, Destiny, Suffering

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

Inner Peace, Mind, Fulfillment

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

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.

Artist, Giving, Grace

Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Life, Positive, Law Of Attraction

Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.

Gratitude, Tasks, World

We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

Stars, Dancing, Flesh

Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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

Order, Giving, Redemption

Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.325, New Directions Publishing

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

Found, Ifs

Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

Opportunity, Wonderful, Offers

Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to the adjoining county, city or state, but to your immediate surroundings. Forget Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and all the others. Do your part to the best of your ability, regardless of the consequences. Above all, do not wait for the next man to follow suit.

Jesus, Men, Russia

Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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