All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself / civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.


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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