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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

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

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

Henry Miller
Inspirational, Literature, Miraculous
Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

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

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

Henry Miller
America, Looks, Literature
Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.117, New Directions Publishing

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

Henry Miller
Life, Humility, Literature

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Henry Miller
Artist, Horizon, Literature
Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.168, New Directions Publishing

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Henry Miller
Literature, Streets
Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.3, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

Henry Miller
Add, Literature, Cleansing
Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Henry Miller
Men, Literature, Divine
Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.320, New Directions Publishing

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

Henry Miller
Men, Literature, Limits
Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

Henry Miller
Skeletons, Literature, World
Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.191, New Directions Publishing

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