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Quotes from Henry Miller

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
~ Henry Miller
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
~ Henry Miller
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
~ Henry Miller
Like ships, men flounder time and time again.
~ Henry Miller
We create our fate every day we live.
~ Henry Miller
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
~ Henry Miller
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
~ Henry Miller
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
~ Henry Miller
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
~ Henry Miller
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
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
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
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
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
~ 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.
~ Henry Miller
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
'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
...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
~ Henry Miller
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.
~ Henry Miller
The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.
~ Henry Miller
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
~ Henry Miller
In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.
~ Henry Miller
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
~ Henry Miller
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
~ Henry Miller