Henry Miller Quotes - Page 10

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• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

  Henry Miller

  God, Voice, Imagination

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

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• The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• Why change the world? Change worlds!

  Henry Miller

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.190, New Directions Publishing

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• Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Names, Everyday

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

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• The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Mind, Wake Up

  "Conversations with Henry Miller".

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• New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.

  Henry Miller

  Jobs, New York, Thug

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Matter, Let Me

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

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• Develop an Interest in Life as you see it.

  Henry Miller

  Passion, Interest In Life, Beautiful Soul

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• When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit. A constant ferment, but it might just as well be going on in a test tube. Nobody knows what it's all about. Nobody directs the energy. Stupendous. Bizarre, Baffling. A tremendous reactive urge, but absolutely uncoordinated.

  Henry Miller

  New York, Men, Thinking

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Even the idiot may have a message for us

  Henry Miller

  May, Messages, Idiot

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your conflicting points of view annihilated. You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual. You have to be carbonized and mineralized in order to work upwards from the last common denominator of the self. You have to get beyond pity in order to feel from the very roots of your being.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, Thinking, Self

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

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• 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

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• Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Law, Cannons

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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• Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

  Henry Miller

  Thinking, Serenity, Devil

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

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• When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Men, Paris

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• A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. 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.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Book, Character

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Needs, Alive

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

  Henry Miller

  Time, Fall, Men

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.366, New Directions Publishing

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• Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

  Henry Miller

  Power, Evil, Analysis

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.191, New Directions Publishing

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• Writing is its own reward.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Rewards

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

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• Cluster together like stars!

  Henry Miller

  Stars, Together, Clusters

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• I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

  Henry Miller

  Reading, Luxury, Giving

  "Dear Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus".

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• The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

  Henry Miller

  Spring, Punishment, Study

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

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