Henry Miller Quotes

Henry Miller (100)

Birth:	26th December, 1891
Death:	7th June, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Painter, Writer

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• The immorality of morality.

  Henry Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics

• Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

  Henry Miller

  Topics in Humor

• Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Life

• Life’s wildest moment—she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

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  Topics in Truth

• Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

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• Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am

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  Topics in Life

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• One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

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  One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

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  Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

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  One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

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  We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

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• A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum — of both books and money! But especially books, for books represent infinitely more than money. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

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  Tags in Sharing, Book

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

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  Tags in Anything, Everything, Imagination, Dare

• The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Least, Waking, Mind

• An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Always, Artist, Needs, Loneliness

• Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

  Henry Miller

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• The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

  Henry Miller

  Topics in Appreciation, Beauty, Spirituality

  Tags in Awareness, Attention
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  Each second is a universe of time.

  Henry Miller

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  Tags in Each, Universe, Time, Second

• 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.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Enemies

• The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance