Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
"Henry Valentine Miller" was an American writer. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms, developing a new sort of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, explicit language, sex, Surrealism/surrealist free association (psychology)/free association and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer (novel)/Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (novel)/Black Spring (1936), Tropic of Capricorn (novel)/Tropic of Capricorn (1939) and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (1949–59), all of which are based on his experiences in New York City/New York and Paris, and all of which were banned in the United States until 1961. He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Henry Miller on Wikipedia.When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
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.
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
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.
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!
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.
Nobody can feel better than the man who is completely taken in. To be intelligent may be a boon, but to be completely trusting, gulible to the point of idiocy, to surrender without reservation, is one of the supreme joys of life.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.
Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
We live at the edge of the miraculous.
When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.
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