Henry Miller

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fact #founded #itself #learn #life

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

#critic #done #drop #fruits #general

Actors die so loud. ↗

— Henry Miller

#loud

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

— Henry Miller

#brings #conscious #consciousness #curative #enough

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ↗

— Henry Miller

#golden #him #moment #recognize #such

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. ↗

— Henry Miller

#being #decay #expression #growth #i

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

#america #been #before #chance #fruit

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. ↗

— Henry Miller

#black #curse #disaster #i #i see

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. ↗

— Henry Miller

#field #horizon #ignorance #increase #knowledge

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. ↗

— Henry Miller

#been #death #defeat #deny #inevitably