Henry Miller Quotes - Page 5

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• have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.

  Henry Miller

  Jobs, Genius, World

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• If one believes, then miracles occur.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Miracle, Arches

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

  Henry Miller

  History, World, World History

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• I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

  Henry Miller

  School, Order, Purpose

  Henry Miller (2007). “Plexus: The Rosy Crucifixion II”, p.599, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

  Henry Miller

  Creating, Looks, Kind

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• Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

  Henry Miller

  Forever, Remains, Depends

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

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• Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

  Henry Miller

  Miracle, Looks

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• Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

  Henry Miller

  Men, Stories, Endless

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• Imagination is the voice of the daring.

  Henry Miller

  Voice, Imagination, Daring

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• It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

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  Birthday, Feelings, Young

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• Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

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  Art, Teach, Significance

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

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  Reason Why, Reason, Stifling

  Henry Miller (1969). “The Books in My Life”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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

  Henry Miller

  Curiosity, Hunger

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

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• We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

  Henry Miller

  Reading, Magazines, Facts

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.109, New Directions Publishing

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• For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

  Henry Miller

  Justice, Prison, Crime

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

  Henry Miller

  Forever

  "Feeding The Travel Addiction Beast: The Ladder Of Addiction" by William D. Chalmers, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

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  Short Life, Long, Want

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

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• To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to find the whole universe embodied and enshrined in the living image of another! Adolescent, we say. Rot! This is the germ of the future life, the seed which we hide away, which we bury deep within us, which we smother and stifle and do our utmost to destroy as we advance from one experience to another and flutter and flounder and lose our way.

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  Self, Way, Germs

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• The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

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  Art, Opposites, Understanding

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.193, New Directions Publishing

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• For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

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  Thinking, Water, Miracle

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

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• The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Forever, Humanity

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.205, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved for the dullard. It is the very opposite of creation, which is play… The part of me which was given up to work, which enabled my wife and child to live in the manner which they unthinkingly demanded, this part of me which kept the wheel turning - a completely fatuous, ego-centric notion! - was the least part of me. I gave nothing to the world in fulfilling the function of breadwinner; the world exacted its tribute of me, that was all.

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  Children, Opposites, Play

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• Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.

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  Ocean, Order, Rivers

  Henry Miller (1958). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.207, New Directions Publishing

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• At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

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  Giving Up, Heart, World

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.

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  Perspective, Soul, Different

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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