The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
— Henry Miller
Famous Quotes
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
— Henry Miller
Famous Quotes
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines — these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or you don't have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money?
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
— Henry Miller
Imagination
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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?
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.