#ss

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

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

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. ↗

— Henry Miller

#enemy #every #every man #human #human race

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

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. ↗

— Henry Miller

#constantly #even #frozen #funds #ledger

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. ↗

— Henry Miller

#invigorating #madness #makes #more #ones

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia. ↗

— Noah Taylor

#bush #definitely #feel #home #i

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ↗

— Henry Miller

#give #inhabit #lack #make #orders

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#broken #dwellings #far #fields #had

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#confided #confine #day #days #early