Henry Miller

Famous quotes by Henry Miller:

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

"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."

"Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed"

"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant"

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

"Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?"

"We live at the edge of the miraculous."

"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."

"Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed."

"Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine."

"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

"We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests."

"The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death."

"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance."

"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."

"Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race."

"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."

Henry Miller

Early life

Henry Miller (commandant)

Early life

War service

Sentoryū Henri

Early life

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Henry Miller

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Born: 1891-12-26

Died: 1980-06-07

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