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Henry Miller

  • Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.... Henry Miller {view}
  • The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.... Henry Miller {view}
  • The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean / when boredom seems the very stuff of life.... Henry Miller {view}
  • Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge... Henry Miller {view}
  • The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.... Henry Miller {view}
  • Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look... Henry Miller {view}
  • We have been educated to such a fine / or dull / point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.... Henry Miller {view}
  • To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in... Henry Miller {view}
  • We live at the edge of the miraculous.... Henry Miller {view}