Henry Miller Quotes - Page 9

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• either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Miracle, Hummingbirds

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

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  Heart, Angel, Men

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

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• What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

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  Acceptance, Evil, Joy

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

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• I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed!

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  Heart, Sunshine, Men

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

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  Stay Strong, Art, Philosophy

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Reading, Rain

  Henry Miller (2012). “Plexus (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow, it is the abyss into which Satan was plunged. There is no climbing back, no ray of light, no sound of human voice or human touch of hand.

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  Pain, Regret, Fall

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

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• The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

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  Men, Differences, Paradise

  Henry Miller (1956). “A Devil in Paradise”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

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  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

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  Life, Procrastination, Long

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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• Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

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  Death, Spiritual, Unknown Worlds

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

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• One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

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  Ideas, People, Politics

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

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• What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.

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  Goal, Doubt, Purpose

  Henry Miller (2007). “Nexus: The Rosy Crucifixion III”, p.129, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

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  Eye, Sole, Grain

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

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• One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

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  Liars, Lying, Writing

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.247, New Directions Publishing

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• The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the contrary, we were made obtuse, we were wrapped in a fog of words and abstractions.

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  School, Fog, Vision

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

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  Leadership, Wise, Wisdom

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.

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  Individual, Do Not Fear, Protected

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• True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

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  Life, Strength, Lying

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song.

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  Running, Song, Wine

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

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• She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Sea

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• Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

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  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

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  Simple, Thinking, People

  Henry Miller, Robert Snyder (1974). “This is Henry, Henry Miller from Brooklyn: conversations with the author from the Henry Miller odyssey”, Nash Publishing Corporation

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• We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

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  Music, Ideas, Mind

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.

  Henry Miller

  Passion, Long, Missing

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

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