All Henry Miller Quotes
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Henry Miller
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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
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Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
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We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
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