Henry Miller quotes - page 6

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. (Henry Miller)
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. View quote
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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. View quote
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Words are loneliness. View quote
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Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge. View quote
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Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am. View quote
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There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart. View quote
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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. View quote
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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself. View quote
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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. View quote
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We live at the edge of the miraculous. (Henry Miller)
Example moves the world more than doctrine. View quote
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The world is the mirror of myself dying. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear. View quote
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Even the idiot may have a message for us. View quote
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. View quote
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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. View quote
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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. View quote
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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum. (Henry Miller)
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. View quote
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Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. View quote
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The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. View quote
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I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. View quote
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