Henry Miller

“Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.”

“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”

“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything”

“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.”

“Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.”

“Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown...”

“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”

“The secret to a happy life is having lots of interests. Interests are ammunition against despair.”

“...the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracl...”

“The hope that we may one day awaken to a condition of life utterly different from that which we experience daily makes men willing victims of every form of tyranny and suppression. Man is st...”

“I see how we ourselves stand before the future, divided between hope and fear. But at least we know that there is a future, that the moment is momentous. We stand now as we do sometimes in o...”

“Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.”

“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.”

“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race”

“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.”

“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”

“He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals”

“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep t...”

“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.”

“You see, to me it seems as though the artists, the scientists, the philosophers were grinding lenses. It’s all a grand preparation for something that never comes off. Someday the lens is goi...”