Recuerdo muy bien cómo disfrutaba con mi sufrimiento. Era como llevarse un cachorro a la cama. De vez en cuando te arañaba... y entonces sentías auténtico espanto. Por lo general, no sentías miedo: siempre podías soltarlo o cortarle la cabeza.
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discipline to impose, if we wo... HENRY MILLER We create our fate every day we live HENRY MILLER Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood HENRY MILLER Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If i... HENRY MILLER A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, w... HENRY MILLER The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chan... HENRY MILLER An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. HENRY MILLER Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. HENRY MILLER Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich,... HENRY MILLER One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction ... HENRY MILLER It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at th... HENRY MILLER Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. HENRY MILLER The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. HENRY MILLER A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. HENRY MILLER Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am. HENRY MILLER If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's d... HENRY MILLER The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday ... HENRY MILLER One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sa... HENRY MILLER The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a lov... HENRY MILLER We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means... HENRY MILLER To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a... HENRY MILLER The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison wit... HENRY MILLER True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to someth... HENRY MILLER Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matte... HENRY MILLER What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their belie... HENRY MILLER The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. HENRY MILLER The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of... HENRY MILLER Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mys... HENRY MILLER Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestionin... HENRY MILLER If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's desti... HENRY MILLER The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake ... HENRY MILLER The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the o... HENRY MILLER Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. HENRY MILLER Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. ... HENRY MILLER What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? HENRY MILLER One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. HENRY MILLER Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of... HENRY MILLER Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobilit... HENRY MILLER Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. HENRY MILLER All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience... HENRY MILLER The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth. HENRY MILLER We have been educated to such a fine / or dull / point that we are incapable of enjoying something n... HENRY MILLER The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of... HENRY MILLER Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine. HENRY MILLER It is preposterous and unreasonable. HENRY MILLER We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the stree... HENRY MILLER Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future,... HENRY MILLER It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand ... HENRY MILLER In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. HENRY MILLER 1) Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2) Start no more new books, add no more new mate... HENRY MILLER Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too... HENRY MILLER Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so r... HENRY MILLER The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. HENRY MILLER [...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandesc... HENRY MILLER Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we wo... HENRY MILLER Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines ... HENRY MILLER Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war. HENRY MILLER I have found God, but he is insufficient. HENRY MILLER If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want t... HENRY MILLER I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am... HENRY MILLER Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was mean... HENRY MILLER Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living ... HENRY MILLER In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to c... HENRY MILLER I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to... HENRY MILLER You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet n... HENRY MILLER الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يس... HENRY MILLER el mundo nunca deja morir de hambre a una mujer guapa. HENRY MILLER Es extraño. Había llegado a resignarme tanto a aquella vida sin ella y, sin embargo, si pensaba en... HENRY MILLER Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas. HENRY MILLER There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy HENRY MILLER We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. HENRY MILLER I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ... HENRY MILLER Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. HENRY MILLER The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way HENRY MILLER Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring... HENRY MILLER