Henry Miller Quotations

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History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [History]

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [Random]

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [Perspective]

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [War]

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [Books]

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [Leadership]

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [Confidence]

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [Art]

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [Life]

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [Society]

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [Body]

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	more quotations on [Change]

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	more quotations on [Virtue] [Perfection]

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
	- Henry Miller	more quotations on [Places]

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