An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. Henry Miller
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. Henry Miller
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. Henry Miller
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. Henry Miller
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. Henry Miller
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. Henry Miller
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. Henry Miller
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. Henry Miller
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. Henry Miller
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. Henry Miller
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
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
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Miller
The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags. Henry Miller
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. Henry Miller
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. Henry Miller
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. Henry Miller
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. Henry Miller
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. Henry Miller
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. Henry Miller
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. Henry Miller
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. Henry Miller
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. Henry Miller
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. Henry Miller
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. Henry Miller
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. Henry Miller
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. Henry Miller
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