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
If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.
We create our fate every day we live
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.
Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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.