#which

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

#art #artist #becoming #defeats #end

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. ↗

— Henry Miller

#reality #score #upon #which #written

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

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

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

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