Henry Miller Quotes

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• To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

  Henry Miller

  Fate, Men, Medicine

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

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

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• One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Positive, Travel, Attitude

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

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• It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Essence, Soul

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• ...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

  Henry Miller

  Wise, Blessing, Men

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.27, New Directions Publishing

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  If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.259, New Directions Publishing

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• Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.

  Henry Miller

  Real, Sacrifice, Love Is

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• The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

  Henry Miller

  Motivational, Beauty, Gratitude

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• Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

  Henry Miller

  Mistake, Whole Life, Whole

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.373, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Beauty, Beautiful

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• There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

  Henry Miller

  Love, Funny, Strong Women

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• Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Fate

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• Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.

  Henry Miller

  Choices, Spirit, Deny

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• The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

  Henry Miller

  Change, Pain, Men

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.

  Henry Miller

  Funny, Sexy, Good Sex

  Sexus ch. 21 (1949)

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• Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Progress, Adaptation

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.251, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

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• Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.

  Henry Miller

  Teacher, Hero, Heart

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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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.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Anchors, Tourism

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

  Henry Miller

  Passion, Mean, Fire

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

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• Everything hinges on how you look at things

  Henry Miller

  Looks, Hinges

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• Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

  Henry Miller

  Nature, Men, Masters

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.175, New Directions Publishing

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• A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Lying, Book

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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• The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

  Henry Miller

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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