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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
Le Monde du sexe
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Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller: Citations en anglais
“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One
Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
“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.”
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
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.
“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
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.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 400
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)