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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
By Henry Miller
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
By Henry Miller
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
By Henry Miller
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.
By Henry Miller
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
By Henry Miller
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
By Henry Miller
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
By Henry Miller
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
By Henry Miller
How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
By Henry Miller
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
By Henry Miller
Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
By Henry Miller
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
By Henry Miller
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
By Henry Miller
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
By Henry Miller
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
By Henry Miller
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.
By Henry Miller
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
By Henry Miller
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
By Henry Miller
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
By Henry Miller
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
By Henry Miller
A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be.
By Henry Miller
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
By Henry Miller
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
By Henry Miller