155 ordspråk av Henry Miller
Henry Miller
Henry Miller föddes den December 26th 1891 och dog den 7 June 1980 - US writer
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 Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. |
| Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. |
| Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look |
| Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. |
| Chaos results when the world changes faster than people |
| Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc. |
| Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood |
| Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. |
| Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. |
| Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. |
| Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. |
| Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such |
| Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. |
| Fame is an illusive thing / here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months. |
| He lives to express himself, and in so doing, enriches the world. |
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