No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. Henry Miller More Quotes by Henry Miller More Quotes From Henry Miller I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions. Henry Miller lines action writing As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie. Henry Miller departed alive dawn Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Henry Miller guilt tree knowledge Work on one thing at a time until finished. Henry Miller one-thing-at-a-time finished writing I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist. Henry Miller harness ready ignorance The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system. Henry Miller poison writing may It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, i thought I was an artist. I no longer think about it. I am. There are no more books to be written, thank God. Henry Miller men book fall There are no "facts"- there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world, is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route and some take the short route. Every man is working out his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient. Henry Miller work-out men long Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer. Henry Miller friendship-love next opinion Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance. Henry Miller short-life want long The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment. Henry Miller inner-peace fulfillment mind Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. Henry Miller midst chaos ghost We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. Henry Miller five-senses creation criticism Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip. Henry Miller skip reader With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding. Henry Miller reading book hands 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. Henry Miller tragedy fear reality No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. Henry Miller paper writing men I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow. Henry Miller individuality artist america There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books Henry Miller one-thing interest book Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown. Henry Miller creation earth night
