141 Quotations by Henry Miller
- 41. In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inext ...
- 42. In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
- 43. In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learn ...
- 44. Instead of asking -- "How much damage will the work in question bring about?" why not ask -- "How mu ...
- 45. It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to sp ...
- 46. It is the American vice, the democratic disease, which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything ...
- 47. It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.
- 48. It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely tha ...
- 49. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestionin ...
- 50. Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
- 51. Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
- 52. Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobilit ...
- 53. Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
- 54. Like ships, men flounder time and time again.
- 55. Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of ...
- 56. Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to prof ...
- 57. Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.
- 58. Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You ...
- 59. Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from ...
- 60. Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines -- these are of trifling import. All that matt ...
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