Henry Miller
Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Millerwas 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, surrealist free association and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricornand The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, all of which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris, and all of which were banned in the United...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth26 December 1891
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
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.