Henry Miller quotes Born: 12/26/1891 Died: 06/07/1980 Country: usa

• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. (Henry Miller) [imagination/god]
• Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. (Henry Miller) [moment]
• The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. (Henry Miller) [thing/love/thing/give]
• The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. (Henry Miller) [life]
• 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) [give/fear]
• Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant. (Henry Miller) [sex]
• Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. (Henry Miller) [life]
• Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. (Henry Miller) [needs]
• The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way. (Henry Miller) [leader/content/point]
• 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) [security/mind/order/willpower]
• There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. (Henry Miller) [salvation/crazy]
• Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. (Henry Miller) [life]
• If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having. (Henry Miller) [/willpower/being]
• If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having. (Henry Miller) [/willpower/being]
• I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. (Henry Miller) [money/resources]
• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. (Henry Miller) [soul & body/wisdom/soul & body/give]
• The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. (Henry Miller) [mind]
• We live at the edge of the miraculous. (Henry Miller)
• This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. 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) [character/face/art/god]
• Instead of asking -- How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask -- How much good? How much joy? (Henry Miller) [damage/willpower/question]
• Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs. (Henry Miller) [spirit/words/magic]
• A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat. (Henry Miller) [life/life/horse/novel]
• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. (Henry Miller) [disease/tyranny/unique]
• All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content. (Henry Miller) [reading/content]
• Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists. (Henry Miller) [men/suffering/literature/art]
• 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) [love/love]
• 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)
• I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. (Henry Miller) [being/life/growth]
• The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you. (Henry Miller) [crime/knowledge/punishment]
• Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. (Henry Miller) [chaos/reality]
• The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal. (Henry Miller) [dreams/thinker/fool/artist]

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