Henry Miller Quotes

• There are passages of Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet-if one wants to extract the full flavour of their content.

  Henry Miller

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• This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty…what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off-key perhaps, but I will sing.

  Henry Miller

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• The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters.

  Henry Miller

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• It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

  Henry Miller

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• Living with a whore–even the best whore in the world–isn’t a bed of roses.

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• I have found God, but he is insufficient.

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• The immorality of morality.

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

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• Life’s wildest moment—she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

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• Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

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

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• One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

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

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• Each second is a universe of time.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

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• 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.

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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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