Quotes from Henry Miller

The word must become flesh; the soul thirsts. On whatever crumb my eye fastens, I will pounce and devour. If to live is the paramount thing, then I will live, even if I must become a cannibal.

I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free.

The name Rebecca excited me. I had always wanted to meet a woman called Rebecca—and not Becky.

A world without hope, but no despair.

Music issuing like fire from the hidden chromosphere of pain, spore and madrepore fructifying the earth, navels vomiting their bright spawn of anguish... He is a bright sage, a dancing sear who, with a sweep of the brush, removes the ugly scaffold to which the body of man is chained by the incontrovertible facts of life.

but it was night and the night is always less cruel than the day.

Nes t?ra tik vienas didis nuotykis - vidinis skverbimasis ? save, o tam neturi ?takos nei laikas, nei erdv?, nei netgi veiksmai.

It didn't matter to me whether I was intact or falling to pieces. I was attending a spectacle: the crumbling of our civilization.

The mere thought of a meal- another meal-rejuvenates me.

Man's task is to make of himself a work of art!

S? fii îndr?gostit.S? fii total singur.. AÈ™a începe...cea mai ducle È™i cea mai amar? tristeÈ›e pe care o poate încerca cineva.

Fiecare om are destinul s?u; singura regul? este s?-l accepte ?i s?-l urmeze oriunde l-ar duce.

Puissance, justice, histoire: à bas!

Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.

Living in the midst of a world where there was a plethora of the new I attached myself to the old.

I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.

Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum. –

There was an odor about him which I could not help but be aware of. It was a mélange of bay rum, wet ashes and tabac gris , tinctured with a dash of some elusive, elegant perfume. Later these would resolve themselves into one unmistakable scent—the aroma of death.

What was most annoying was that at first blush people usually took me to be good, to be kind, generous, loyal, faithful. Perhaps I did possess these virtues but if so it was because I was indifferent: I could afford to be good, kind, generous, loyal, and so forth, since I was free of envy. Envy was the one thing I was never a victim of. I have never envied anybody or anything. On the contrary, I have only felt pity for everybody and everything.

To the best of my recollection the event must have taken place during the year when I was looking for a job without the slightest intention of taking one. It reminded me that, desperate as I thought myself then to be, I had not even bothered to look through the columns of the want ads.

Hayallerden uzak m? ya?amal? yoksa onlarla birlikte mi? ??te mesele!

The tears were streaming down his face. He made no effort to brush them away. He just let everything gush forth. Jesus, I thought to myself, that's fine to have a release like that. Fine to be a complete coward at least once in your life. To let go that way.

He was an incurable dandy living the life of a beggar. And living wholly in the past!

In Greece one has the desire to bathe in the sky. You want to rid yourself of your clothes, take a running leap and vault into the blue. You want to float in the air like an angel or lie in the grass rigid and enjoy the cataleptic trance. Stone and sky, they marry here. It is the perpetual dawn of man's awakening.