The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
Henry Miller
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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 One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifli... HENRY MILLER