Henry Miller Quotes

• Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am

  Henry Miller

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

  Henry Miller

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  Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

  Henry Miller

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  One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

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• The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

  Henry Miller

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• An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

  Henry Miller

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• Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

  Henry Miller

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• The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

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• Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

  Henry Miller

• Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

  Henry Miller

• When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

  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

• Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

  Henry Miller

• Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

  Henry Miller

• What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

  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

• We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only.

  Henry Miller

• We live at the edge of the miraculous.

  Henry Miller

• 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.

  Henry Miller

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

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Henry Miller (124)

Birth:	26th December, 1891
Death:	7th June, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Painter

About

Henry Valentine Miller was born in Yorkville, Manhattan, USA. He was an American novelist and painter. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer(novel), Black Sprin(novel), Tropic of Capricorn(novel), and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy(novel), all of which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris. He was a close friend of the French painter Grégoire Michonze. It is estimated that Miller painted 2,000 watercolors during his life, and that 50 or more major collections of Miller’s paintings exist.

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