Henry Miller quotes - page 3

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money. (Henry Miller)
I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans. View quote
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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. View quote
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There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books. View quote
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It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.' View quote
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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. View quote
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Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war. View quote
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If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without. View quote
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I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing. View quote
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To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts. View quote
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. (Henry Miller)
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. View quote
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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! View quote
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Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. View quote
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The cancer of time is eating us away. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. View quote
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On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. View quote
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As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance. View quote
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. (Henry Miller)
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. View quote
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Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal. View quote
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I have found God, but he is insufficient. View quote
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Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible. View quote
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