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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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“This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will.”

Henry Miller livre Tropique du Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One
Contexte: This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

“That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.”

Source: A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953

“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”

Henry Miller livre Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Capricorn http://books.google.com/books?id=_HAhCxNs-QUC&lpg=PA176&q="Confusion+is+a+word+we+have+invented+for+an+order+which+is+not+understood"&pg=PA176#v=onepage (1939)

“The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.”

Henry Miller livre Tropic of Capricorn

Source: Tropic of Capricorn

“The cancer of time is eating us away”

Henry Miller livre Tropique du Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer

“Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.”

"The Absolute Collective", an essay first published in The Criterion on The Absolute Collective : A Philosophical Attempt to Overcome Our Broken State by Erich Gutkind, as translated by Marjorie Gabain
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
Contexte: All about us we see a world in revolt; but revolt is negative, a mere finishing-off process. In the midst of destruction we carry with us also our creation, our hopes, our strength, our urge to be fulfilled. The climate changes as the wheel turns, and what is true for the sidereal world is true for man. The last two thousand years have brought about a duality in man such as he never experienced before, and yet the man who dominates this whole period was one who stood for wholeness, one who proclaimed the Holy Ghost. No life in the whole history of man has been so misinterpreted, so woefully misunderstood as Christ's. If not a single Man has shown himself capable of following the example of Christ, and doubtless none ever will for we shall no longer have need of Christs, nevertheless this one profound example has altered our climate. Unconsciously we are moving into a new realm of being; what we have brought to perfection, in our zeal to escape the true reality, is a complete arsenal of destruction; when we have rid ourselves of the suicidal mania for a beyond we shall begin the life of here and now which is reality and which is sufficient unto itself. We shall have no need for art or religion because we shall be in ourselves a work of art. This is how I interpret realistically what Gutkind has set forth philosophically; this is the way in which man will overcome his broken state. If my statements are not precisely in accord with the text of Gutkind's thesis, I nevertheless am thoroughly in accord with Gutkind and his view of things. I have felt it my duty not only to set forth his doctrine, but to launch it, and in launching it to augment it, activate it. Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. I am one man who can truly say that he has understood and acted upon this profound thought of Gutkind's —“the stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do."

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