141 Quotations by Henry Miller
- 81. The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth.

- 82. The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the o ...

- 83. The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, ...

- 84. The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnific ...

- 85. The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

- 86. The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is a ...

- 87. The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is a ...

- 88. The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author hims ...

- 89. The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday ...

- 90. The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There ...

- 91. The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's d ...

- 92. The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own o ...

- 93. The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in orde ...

- 94. The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, aw ...

- 95. The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is ...

- 96. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

- 97. The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the only thing we never give enough of is lov ...

- 98. The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

- 99. The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives ...

- 100. The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a lov ...

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