All Henry Miller Quotes
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
Henry Miller
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We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
Henry Miller
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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller
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The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Henry Miller
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The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
Henry Miller
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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
Henry Miller
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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
Henry Miller
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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
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Art
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The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller
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There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
Henry Miller
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller
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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
Henry Miller
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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
Henry Miller
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Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
Henry Miller
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