#me

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. ↗

— Henry Miller

#antagonism #based #conquered #enemy #itself

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 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

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

#does #good #gratuitous #letter #like

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. ↗

— Henry Miller

#baseness #capable #direction #either #know

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. ↗

— Henry Miller

#democratic #disease #everything #expresses #herd

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. ↗

— Henry Miller

#american way #cut #looking #oceans #off

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fact #given #life #meaning #obvious