Henry Miller

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fragments #ideas #live #longer #mind

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. ↗

— Henry Miller

#always #anchored #arriving #departing #destination

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. ↗

— Henry Miller

#actor #acts #beginning #in the beginning #man

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bad one #bit #good #idea #people

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. ↗

— Henry Miller

#music #opiate #seriously #take #too

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. ↗

— Henry Miller

#reality #score #upon #which #written

The world is the mirror of myself dying. ↗

— Henry Miller

#mirror #myself #world

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. ↗

— Henry Miller

#give #our #read #should #souls

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. ↗

— Henry Miller

#false #literature #open #say #street

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fear #finding #full #give #hope