To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold. Henry Miller More Quotes by Henry Miller More Quotes From Henry Miller The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts. Henry Miller practice self art You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, benture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness. Henry Miller artist animal men The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment. Henry Miller contentment-and-peace difficult contentment For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal. Henry Miller suicidal artist They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul; never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark. Henry Miller soul doors Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way. Henry Miller mean way art The purpose of life is to remember. Henry Miller purpose life-is remember I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was. Henry Miller love-you running jobs I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul. Henry Miller soul believe book Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable. Henry Miller unthinkable coca-cola life-is My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once. Henry Miller hunger curiosity We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power. What those powers that are in us may be no one has truly dared to imagine. That they are infinite we will realize the day we admit to ourselves that imagination is everything. Imagination is the voice of daring. Henry Miller live-life lying thinking Develop an Interest in Life as you see it. Henry Miller interest-in-life beautiful-soul passion 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. Henry Miller unknown-worlds spiritual death He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. Henry Miller viruses writing trying There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart. Henry Miller tropic-of-cancer masochism heart You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. [...] I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me. Henry Miller strong wise love-you For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn. Henry Miller crime prison justice After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in. Henry Miller typewriters writing talking 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. Henry Miller broken-heart past thinking
