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Henry Miller QUOTES

1 " What's a fuck when what I want is love? "

― Henry Miller

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

― Henry Miller , Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

3 " 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

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

― Henry Miller

5 " Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is. "

― Henry Miller , Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

6 " 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

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

― Henry Miller , Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2)

8 " Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken. "

― Henry Miller

9 " Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. "

― Henry Miller , Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1)

10 " I have found God, but he is insufficient. "

― Henry Miller , Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)

Henry Miller QUOTES

11 " Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything "

― Henry Miller , Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1)

12 " 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. "

― Henry Miller

13 " Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. "

― Henry Miller , Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

14 " ...the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured- disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui- in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. And all the while a meter is running inside and there is no hand that can reach in there and shut it off. "

― Henry Miller , Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)

15 " Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown... "

― Henry Miller , Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)

16 " 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. "

― Henry Miller

17 " One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. "

― Henry Miller

18 " Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race "

― Henry Miller

19 " He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. "

― Henry Miller

20 " 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