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They never opened the door which leads to the soul.
— Henry Miller
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
— Henry Miller
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
— Henry Miller
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.
— Henry Miller
The trouble with Irene is that she has a valise instead of a cunt. She wants
fat letters to shove in her valise. — Henry Miller
fat letters to shove in her valise. — Henry Miller
Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'
— Lydia Lunch
Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
— Henry Miller
Prayers are offered up daily - without charge ... Refreshments are served when demanded.
— Henry Miller
Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
— Henry Miller
The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.
— Henry Miller
The act of dreaming, like a draught of fresh air in an abandoned house, situates the furniture of the mind in a new ambiance.
— Henry Miller
Work on one thing at a time until finished.
— Henry Miller
Always a good dodge to simplify your problem by removing it.
— Henry Miller
To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.
— Henry Miller
Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be.
— Henry Miller
Everything hinges on how you look at things
— Henry Miller
I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.
— 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.
— Henry Miller
They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship without a rudder.
— Henry Miller
It's terrible to be civilized, because when you come to the end of the world you have nothing to support the terror of loneliness.
— Henry Miller
I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think pornography has added to our sensual life.
— Anais Nin
Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.
— Henry Miller
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
— Henry Miller
Suffering is futile, my intelligence told me over and over, but I went on suffering voluntarily.
— Henry Miller
Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
— Henry Miller
Words are loneliness.
— Henry Miller
I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.
— 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
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.
— Henry Miller
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
— Leslie Fiedler
When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.
— Henry Miller
Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.
— Henry Miller
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
— Henry Miller
I was the least impressed with, a woman who thought Henry Miller was a police sitcom from the seventies.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
— Henry Miller
I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.
— Henry Miller
I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
— Henry Miller
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
— Henry Miller
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
— Henry Miller
We are all alone here and we are dead.
— Henry Miller
Well, fuck a duck.
— Henry Miller
To know Paris is to know a great deal.
— Henry Miller
It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.
— Henry Miller
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.
— Henry Miller
i like everything that flows
— Henry Miller
For in Mexico, ladies and gentlemen, it's always high noon and what glows is fuchsia and what's dead is dead and no feather-dusters.
— Henry Miller
Imagination is the voice of the daring.
— Henry Miller
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them - that is the tragedy of life.
— Henry Miller
Like every man I am my own worst enemy, but unlike most men I know too that I am my own saviour.
— Henry Miller
There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books
— Henry Miller
If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.
— Henry Miller
We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
— Henry Miller
We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
— Henry Miller
There were lots of words which had fallen out of my vocabulary, living abroad so long.
— Henry Miller
For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.
— Henry Miller
He wakes up utterly bored and discomfited, chagrined to think that he did not die overnight.
— 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
I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.
— 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
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
— Henry Miller
Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.
— Henry Miller