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Henry Miller

Születési dátum: 26. december 1891
Halál dátuma: 7. június 1980
Más nevek: Henry Valentine Miller

Henry Valentine Miller amerikai író, festő. Kortársai jellemzően botrányszerzőnek tekintették, amiért írásaiban szembeszállt kora szigorú, bigott erkölcsiségével. A XX. század eleji puritán társadalmak legalapvetőbb tabuit sem tartotta tiszteletben, alkotásai sokakat megbotránkoztattak. Magánéletével is alátámasztotta regényeiben tükröződő mentalitását, ugyanis ötször nősült, és házasságon kívüli kapcsolatai is ismertek voltak. Wikipedia

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Idézetek Henry Miller

„Fesd azt, amit szeretsz és halj meg boldogan.“

—  Henry Miller

„Abban a pillanatban, hogy az ember nagy figyelmet szentel bárminek, akár egy fűszálnak is, az önmagában egy titokzatos, bámulat keltő és leírhatatlanul csodálatos világgá válik.“

—  Henry Miller

„The great ones do not set up offices, charge fees, give lectures, or write books. Wisdom is silent, and the most effective propaganda for truth is the force of personal example. The great ones attract disciples, lesser figures whose mission is to preach and to teach. These are gospelers who, unequal to the highest task, spend their lives in converting others. The great ones are indifferent, in the profoundest sense. They don't ask you to believe: they electrify you by their behavior. They are the awakeners.“

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—  Henry Miller, könyv Sexus

Forrás: Sexus

„Paint what you like and die happy“

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—  Henry Miller

„Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.“

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—  Henry Miller

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

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—  Henry Miller

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

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

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—  Henry Miller, könyv Tropic of Capricorn

A fragment of Miller's unfinished book on D. H. Lawrence, originally published in the London literary journal Purpose.
Forrás: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) "Creative Death", p. 2

„All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.“

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—  Henry Miller

„Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.“

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—  Henry Miller

Forrás: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

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

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—  Henry Miller, könyv Tropic of Cancer

Forrás: Tropic of Cancer

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

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—  Henry Miller, könyv Tropic of Cancer

Forrás: Tropic of Cancer

„Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.“

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—  Henry Miller

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

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—  Henry Miller, könyv Tropic of Cancer

Forrás: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One

„I am a free man-and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion. I need sunshine and paving tones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me. Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to anyone, I would've responsible to God alone-if he exited!“

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—  Henry Miller, könyv Tropic of Cancer

Forrás: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter Four, Pappin

„Take a good look at me. Now tell me, do you think I'm the sort of fellow who gives a fuck what happens once he's dead?“

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—  Henry Miller, könyv Tropic of Capricorn

Forrás: 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.“

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—  Henry Miller

The Books in My Life (1952) Chapter 11: The Story of My Heart (2nd edition. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1969, p. 192)

„Through it all I learned the value of being humble to the dust, reduced to ashes. Everyone should experience that. Before you can recognize you're somebody, you have to know you're nobody. [-] The butterfly was just a lowly worm in its beginning. The worm didn't live with the moment-to-moment expectation of sprouting wings and taking flight. He lived a useful and productive life, the life of a worm. And he had to die a worm in order to be born as an angel! The spinning of the cocoon is, in and of itself, remarkable. It is as wondrous as the emergence and first flight of the butterfly.“

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—  Henry Miller

Reflections (1981)

„The Happiest peoples, it is said, are those which have no history. Those who have a history, those who have made history seem only to have emphazied through their acomplishments the eternality of struggle. These disappear too eventually, just as those who made no effort, who were content to merely live & enjoy.“

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—  Henry Miller

Forrás: Henry Miller on Writing (1964)

„I am glad to be a maggot in the corpse which is the world.“

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—  Henry Miller

Henry Miller on Writing (1964)

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