Henry Miller Quotes

• Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

  Henry Miller

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

  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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• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

• Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

  Henry Miller

• Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

  Henry Miller

• Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

  Henry Miller

• 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

• Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

  Henry Miller

• And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

  Henry Miller

• Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

  Henry Miller

• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

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• Actors die so loud.

  Henry Miller

• I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

  Henry Miller

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• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything God like about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything

  Henry Miller

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  Tags in Anything, Everything, Imagination, Dare

• The world is not to be put in order; the world is in order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

  Henry Miller

  Topics in Life, Nature

  Tags in Acceptance, Order, World

• I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn’t. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

  Henry Miller

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• In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

  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.

  Henry Miller

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  Tags in Enemies

• The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we can never give enough of is love.

  Henry Miller

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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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