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Henry Miller Quotes: "Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.



Henry Miller Quotes: "In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other."

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.




Henry Miller Quotes: "We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior."

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.



Henry Miller Quotes: "The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world."

The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.




Henry Miller Quotes: "Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable."

Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.



Henry Miller Quotes: "I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it."

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.



Henry Miller Quotes: "No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance."

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.




Henry Miller Quotes: "Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?"

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?



Henry Miller Quotes: "By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves."

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.



Henry Miller Quotes: "Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end."

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.



Henry Miller Quotes: "The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar."

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.



Henry Miller Quotes: "Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown."

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.




Henry Miller Quotes: "The world is the mirror of myself dying."

The world is the mirror of myself dying.



Henry Miller Quotes: "It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites."

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.



Henry Miller Quotes: "If one believes, then miracles occur."

If one believes, then miracles occur.



Henry Miller Quotes: "The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon."

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.



Henry Miller Quotes: "We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown."

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.



Henry Miller Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos."

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.



Henry Miller Quotes: "If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch."

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.



Henry Miller Quotes: "It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things."

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.



Henry Miller Quotes: "To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest."

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.



Henry Miller Quotes: "The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."

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



Henry Miller Quotes: "He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals"

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals



Henry Miller Quotes: "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.



Henry Miller Quotes: "Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.



Henry Miller Quotes: "The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre."

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.



Henry Miller Quotes: "If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without."

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.



Henry Miller Quotes: "I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans."

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.



Henry Miller Quotes: "Music is the can-opener of the soul."

Music is the can-opener of the soul.



Henry Miller Quotes: "Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.



Henry Miller Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine."

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.



Henry Miller Quotes: "The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself."

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.



Henry Miller Quotes: "We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests."

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.



Henry Miller Quotes: "It was only in my forties that I started feeling young."

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.



Henry Miller Quotes: "We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow."

We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow.




Henry Miller Quotes: "Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.



Henry Miller Quotes: "The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time."

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.



Henry Miller Quotes: "I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.



Henry Miller Quotes: "...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing."

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.



Henry Miller Quotes: "Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.



Henry Miller Quotes: "For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn."

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.



Henry Miller Quotes: "Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern."

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.



Henry Miller Quotes: "I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing."

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.



Henry Miller Quotes: "Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself."

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.



Henry Miller Quotes: "For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter."

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.



Henry Miller Quotes: "Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness."

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.