Henry Miller Quotes

• The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

  Henry Miller

• The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

  Henry Miller

• The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

  Henry Miller

• The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

  Henry Miller

• The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

  Henry Miller

• The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

  Henry Miller

• The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

  Henry Miller

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

  Henry Miller

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• Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Henry Miller

• Plots and character don’t make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

  Henry Miller

• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

  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.

  Henry Miller

• One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

  Henry Miller

• 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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• No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe.

  Henry Miller

• No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

  Henry Miller

  Topics in God, Religion

• Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.

  Henry Miller

• Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines – these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

  Henry Miller

• Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

  Henry Miller

• Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

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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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