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Henry Valentine Miller est un romancier et essayiste américain né le 26 décembre 1891 à New York et mort le 7 juin 1980 à Pacific Palisades .

Son œuvre est marquée par des romans largement autobiographiques, dont le ton conjugue à la fois désespoir et extase. Miller s'est lui-même qualifié de « Roc heureux ». Son œuvre a suscité une série de controverses dans une Amérique mécanique et pécuniaire contre laquelle Miller a lutté car, pour lui, le but premier de la vie est de vivre. Il fut bien accueilli en Europe, cependant il faudra attendre les années 1960 pour qu'il connaisse du succès dans son pays .

Henry Miller a été durant sa jeunesse un grand admirateur de l’écrivain Knut Hamsun ainsi que de Blaise Cendrars, qui fut également son ami et un des premiers écrivains de renom à reconnaître son talent littéraire. Sur son lit de mort, Henry Miller dira que, s'il a tellement écrit sur sa vie, ce fut uniquement pour l'amour sincère des gens et non pour la gloire, la renommée ou la célébrité.

✵ 26. décembre 1891 – 7. juin 1980   •   Autres noms Henry Valentine Miller
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“Nul n'est besoin de faire de la terre un paradis : elle en est un. A nous de nous adapter pour l'habiter.”

We don't have to make [the Earth] a Paradise-it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it.
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Henry Miller Citations

Henry Miller: Citations en anglais

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”

Henry Miller livre Tropique du Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One

“The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.”

Source: The Wisdom of the Heart (1941), p. 46

“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.”

Henry Miller livre Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Variante: Often misquoted as "One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things".
Source: Miller, H. (1957). Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

“Everywhere I go people are making a mess of their lives. Everyone has his private tragedy. It's in the blood now - misfortune, ennui, grief, suicide. The atmosphere is saturated with disaster, frustration, futility. Scratch and scratch, until there's no skin left. However, the effect upon me is exhilarating. Instead of being discouraged or depressed, I enjoy it. I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want every one to scratch himself to death.”

Henry Miller livre Tropique du Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One
Contexte: Well, I'll take these pages and move on. Things are happening elsewhere. Things are always happening. It seems wherever I go there is drama. People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused. Everywhere I go people are making a mess of their lives. Everyone has his private tragedy. It's in the blood now - misfortune, ennui, grief, suicide. The atmosphere is saturated with disaster, frustration, futility. Scratch and scratch, until there's no skin left. However, the effect upon me is exhilarating. Instead of being discouraged or depressed, I enjoy it. I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want every one to scratch himself to death.

“Words are loneliness.”

Henry Miller livre Tropique du Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

Henry Miller livre 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

“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”

Henry Miller livre Tropique du Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

Henry Miller livre Tropique du Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer

“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”

Henry Miller livre Tropique du Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer

“I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.”

Henry Miller livre Tropique du Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer

“Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal.”

Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 400

“We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.”

1945 Source: [Kaufman, Charlie, Inspirational Writing Advice From Charlie Kaufman - On Writing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfXcWT_oFs, YouTube, BAFTA Guru, 2017-01-06, 2020-03-09] (at 7:08 of 41:08)

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