Henry Miller Quotes - Page 7

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• I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.

  Henry Miller

  Sex, Want, Bits

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Tropic Of Cancer, Masochism

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

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• Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

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  Faith, Believe, Miracle

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

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• The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.

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  Men, White Man, Mexican

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

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  Insane, Literature, Madness

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.180, New Directions Publishing

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• It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.

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  Paris, People, France Paris

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

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• An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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  Music, Lonely, Loneliness

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow.

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  Journey, Tomorrow

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

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• In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

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  Death, Moving, Men

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

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  Adventure, Self, Space

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

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  Mean, Two, Society

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.

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  Life Lesson, Men, Doe

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

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  Falling In Love, Cynical, Forgiving

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

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• Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

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  Life, Frozen, Assets

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.359, New Directions Publishing

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• We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power. What those powers that are in us may be no one has truly dared to imagine. That they are infinite we will realize the day we admit to ourselves that imagination is everything. Imagination is the voice of daring.

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  Lying, Live Life, Thinking

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

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• There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

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  Crazy, World, Becoming

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• When you can't create you can work

  Henry Miller

  Writing

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

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• To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

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  Song, Guitar, Singing

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

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• I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.

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  Falling In Love, Mean, Thinking

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

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  Men, Weakness, Firsts

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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

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  Life, Humility, Literature

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• If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

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  Writing, Lasts, Speak

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

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  Heart, Men, Discovery

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• You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, benture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness.

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  Artist, Animal, Men

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.

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  Eye, Light, Whole

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.210, New Directions Publishing

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