What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? - Henry Miller
Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal. - Henry Miller
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things. - Henry Miller
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
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. - Henry Miller
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
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. - Henry Miller
The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love. - Henry Miller
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant - Henry Miller
They never opened the door which leads to the soul. - Henry Miller
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. - Henry Miller
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. - Henry Miller
literature coming from the cold corpse of a whore is the last thing to be served in bed. - Henry Miller
Previously, when I began to write this tale, I set out by saying that Mlle. Claude was a whore. She is a whore, of course, and I'm not trying to deny it, but what I say now is--if Mlle. Claude is a whore then what name shall I find for the other women I know? - Henry Miller
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
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. - Henry Miller
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. - Henry Miller
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. - Henry Miller
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
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. - Henry Miller
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. - Henry Miller
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. - Henry Miller
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. - Henry Miller
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart. - Henry Miller
Nobody can feel better than the man who is completely taken in. To be intelligent may be a boon, but to be completely trusting, gulible to the point of idiocy, to surrender without reservation, is one of the supreme joys of life. - Henry Miller
Visata susitraukė, liko tik miesto kvartalo dydžio, joje nebėra žvaigždžių, nebėra medžių, nebėra upių. Žmonės, kurie čia gyvena, yra mirę. Jie dirba kėdes, ant kurių kiti žmonės sėdi sapnuose. - Henry Miller
I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything. - Henry Miller
It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons. - Henry Miller
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. - Henry Miller
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. - Henry Miller
What's a fuck when what I want is love? - Henry Miller
Dostoyevski okumaya başladığım o ilk gece, hayatımın en önemli olaylarından biriydi, ilk aşkımdan bile daha önemli. - Henry Miller
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery. - Henry Miller
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free. - Henry Miller
The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. - Henry Miller
It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis. - Henry Miller
Fiecare om are destinul său; singura regulă este să-l accepte şi să-l urmeze oriunde l-ar duce. - Henry Miller
When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes. - Henry Miller
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - Henry Miller
I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive. - Henry Miller
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race - Henry Miller
Everyman has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - Henry Miller
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. - Henry Miller
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. - Henry Miller
Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses. - Henry Miller
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
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. - Henry Miller
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. - Henry Miller
The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. - Henry Miller
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller
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. - Henry Miller
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - Henry Miller
[...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandescent. - Henry Miller
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry. - Henry Miller