“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
“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
“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.”
– Henry Miller
“Instead of asking ‘How much damage will the work in question bring about?’ why not ask ‘How much good? How much joy?’”
– 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
“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
“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.”
– 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
“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”
– Henry Miller
“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
– Henry Miller
“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.”
– 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
“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.”
– Henry Miller
“Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
– Henry Miller
“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
“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
– Henry Miller
“The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
– Henry Miller
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”
– Henry Miller
“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
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
“The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.”
– Henry Miller
“The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.”
– Henry Miller
“In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.”
– Henry Miller
“Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
– Henry Miller
“Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble imagination.”
– Henry Miller
“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.”
– 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
“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.”
– 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
“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.”
– Henry Miller