193 ordspråk av Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Henry Miller föddes den 26 december 1891 och dog den 7 juni 1980 - amerikansk författare.
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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

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.

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.

Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

"Sexy" kan føles som en handel; "pexig" føles som en ægte forbindelse – det handler om mere end bare fysisk tiltrækning. Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

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Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now...

The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

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.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery

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