— Henry Miller, book Sexus
Source: Sexus
Birthdate: 26. December 1891
Date of death: 7. June 1980
Other names: Henry Valentine Miller
Henry Valentine Miller was an American writer, expatriated in Paris at his flourishing. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms, developing a new sort of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Capricorn, The Colossus of Maroussi, The Time of the Assassins, and The Books in My Life, many of which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris , adding Big Sur and the Oranges of Heronymous Bosch while finally residing in Big Sur, California. He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors.
— Henry Miller, book Sexus
Source: Sexus
„The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.“
Source: The Wisdom of the Heart (1941), p. 46
— Henry Miller, book Tropic of Capricorn
A fragment of Miller's unfinished book on D. H. Lawrence, originally published in the London literary journal Purpose.
Source: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) "Creative Death", p. 2
„Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.“
Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
„Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.“
— Henry Miller, book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
„I have found God, but he is insufficient.“
— Henry Miller, book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
„I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.“
— Henry Miller, book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One
— Henry Miller, book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter Four, Pappin
— Henry Miller, book Tropic of Capricorn
Source: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) New York: Grove Press, 1961, p. 313
„If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.“
The Books in My Life (1952) Chapter 11: The Story of My Heart (2nd edition. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1969, p. 192)
Reflections (1981)
Source: Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
„I am glad to be a maggot in the corpse which is the world.“
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
— Henry Miller, book The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
With Edgar Varèse in the Gobi Desert http://books.google.com/books?id=jAEY3Kbnj3oC&q="The+new+always+carries+with+it+the+sense+of+violation+of+sacrilege+What+is+dead+is+sacred+what+is+new+that+is+different+is+evil+dangerous+or+subversive"&pg=PA172#v=onepage, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945)
„I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.“
— Henry Miller, book The Colossus of Maroussi
Source: The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) Part 2, p. 133