Henry Miller Quotes

• 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 should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

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

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• 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.

  Henry Miller

• Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

  Henry Miller

• True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

  Henry Miller

• To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

  Henry Miller

• There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

  Henry Miller

• There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

  Henry Miller

• The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

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• The world is the mirror of myself dying.

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• The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

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• 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.

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

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• The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.

  Henry Miller

• The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

  Henry Miller

• The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

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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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