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\u201cAll growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

The Wisdom of the Heart<\/em> (1941) New York: New Directions, p. 90<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1448313590834-bf32ca55-2da4″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201c[C]haos is the score upon which reality is written.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Tropic of Cancer<\/em> (1934) New York: Grove Press, 1961 edition, p. 1<\/h6>\n

Full line:\u00a0<\/em> \u201cWhen into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453320764817{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1448314586028-319616ed-db84″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cEvery day we slaughter our finest impulses.\u00a0 That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth a beauty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Sexus<\/em> (1949) New York: Grove Press, 1965 edition, p. 26<\/h6>\n

Miller added:<\/em>\u00a0 \u201cEvery man, when he gets quiet, when he gets desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1448314584341-8eaff432-12e5″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cEverything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.\u00a0 What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind.\u00a0 Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.\u00a0 Life is now, every moment, no matter if the world be full of death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

The World of Sex<\/em> (1940) Paris: The Olympia Press, 1957 edition, p. 88<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453320772759{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453230641475-1afb3fae-0c02″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201c[I]f there is to be any peace it will come about through being, not having.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

The Wisdom of the Heart<\/em> (1941) New York: New Directions, p. 39<\/h6>\n

Full line:<\/em> \u201cBeing is burning, in the truest sense, and if there is to be any peace it will come about through being, not having.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1453230641855-407c0463-69c3″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

Misquote note:<\/em> The quote is frequently missing the word \u2018about\u2019 when cited by online resources.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1448491208392-a4c5c8ed-b18b” add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cIf we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

The Books In My Life<\/em> (1941) (French: M\u00e9moires, Plaidoiries Et Documents) (1952) New York: New Directions, 1969 edition, p. 192; online via University of Toronto, Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453322639884{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449530559018-9c3aa0c6-6be4″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cImagination is the voice of daring.\u00a0 If there is anything Godlike about God it is that.\u00a0 He dared to imagine everything.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Sexus <\/em>(1949) New York: Grove Press, 1965 edition, p.341<\/h6>\n

Extended excerpt<\/em>: \u201cWe can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power.\u00a0 What these powers are in us may be no one has truly dared to imagine.\u00a0 That they are infinite we will realize the day we admit to ourselves that imagination is everything.\u00a0 Imagination is the voice of daring.<\/strong>\u00a0 If there is anything Godlike about God it is that.\u00a0 He dared to imagine everything.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449530561287-300c4425-540f” add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cKindness, goodness, peace and mercy.\u00a0 Neither beginning nor end.\u00a0 The round.\u00a0 The eternal round.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch<\/em> (1957) Part I, New York: New Directions, 1957 edition, p. 8<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453322812343{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453230857232-6102537d-c3ea” add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cMan will be forced to realize that power must be kept open, fluid, and free.\u00a0 His aim will be not to possess power but to radiate it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Sunday After the War<\/em> (1944) New York: New Directions, p. 154<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1453230857604-c71f44e9-63f2″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

Common misquote: <\/em>“The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it<\/strong>.”\u00a0 The word alteration here should not be cited to Miller \u2013 it does not accurately reflect the context or the meaning of Miller\u2019s original reflection on what a \u201cnew civilization\u201d might look like, once mankind is able to move past the \u201cproblem\u2026of power \u2013 and of possession.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453230859255-9c159b2f-7a64″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cOne\u2019s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch<\/em> (1957) Part I, New York: New Directions, p. 25<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453322994658{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531588223-e020d87d-f7dd” add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cReal love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands.\u00a0 It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation.\u00a0 It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice.\u00a0 It is life illuminated.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

The Wisdom of the Heart<\/em> (1941) New York: New Directions, p. 45<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa” add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201c[T]he aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

The Wisdom of the Heart<\/em> (1941) New York: New Directions, p. 2<\/h6>\n

Full line<\/em>:\u00a0 \u201cStrange as it may seem today to say, the aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531443593-8b604cf6-a8bc” add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cThe history of the world is a history of a privileged few.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Sunday after the War<\/em> (1944) New York: New Directions, p. 148<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531446112-4fd8cbb0-1e68″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cThe moment one give close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnified world in itself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Plexus<\/em> (1953) New York: Grove Press, 1965 edition, p. 53<\/h6>\n

Miller added<\/em>:\u00a0 \u201cThe writer waits in ambush for these unique moments.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453325084940{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531799398-b83b17fd-c003″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cThe world has not to be put in order: the world is order incarnate.<\/strong>\u00a0 It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order, to know what is the world order in contradistinction to the wishful-thinking orders which we seek to impose on one another. The power which we long to possess, in order to establish the good, the true and the beautiful, would prove to be, if we could have it, but the means of destroying one another. It is fortunate that we are powerless.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Sexus <\/em>(1949) New York: Grove Press, 1965 edition, p.213<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1449531800500-cbb1403b-1a61″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

Common misquote:<\/em> \u201cThe world is not to be put in order; the world is in order<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531802429-b09d57c9-3473″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cThrough light and joy is the world opened up, revealed for what it is: ineffable beauty, unending creation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

The Books In My Life<\/em> (French: M\u00e9moires, Plaidoiries Et Documents<\/em>) (1952) New York: New Directions, 1969 edition, p. 146; online via University of Toronto, Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453325074890{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531987140-77bfeeff-0ace” add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cWe live on the edge of the miraculous every minute of our lives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

The Wisdom of the Heart<\/em> (1941) New York: New Directions, p. 89<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1449531988570-0ea51c99-99b8″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

Common misquote:<\/em> \u201cThe world is not to be put in order; the world is in order<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449532559991-9abfaf2b-f065″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cDevelop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music \u2013 the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people.\u00a0 Forget yourself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Miller<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

At Big Sur 1950? \u2013 <\/strong>1950 Izis Bidermans photo book Paris des Rives<\/h6>\n

Not in: <\/em><\/strong>Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller on Writing, The Books in My Life , Wisdom of the Heart, Rolling Stone interview<\/em><\/p>\n

Quoted in \u201cThe Right to Write\u201d (1998) \u2013 no citation. No match in Newspapers.com.\u00a0 Not in Google Books prior to 1995.\u00a0 First seen \u2013 \u201cHeart Steps\u201d by Julia Cameron (no citation \u2013 1997) \u2013 same author of \u201cThe Right to Write” <\/em><\/p>\n

Emailed query to Henry Miller Memorial Museum, October 1<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” title=”Research” tab_id=”1449532560629-cb528d2d-1239″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”bottom-to-top” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Henry Valentine Miller<\/strong> | Repeat Right Pinterest page – www.pinterest.com\/repeatright\/henry-valentine-miller<\/p>\n