Henri Michaux Quotes

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He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

Henri Michaux
He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.

Henri Michaux
It is better not to travel with a corpse. Plus, it stinks to high heaven and can cause plagues and decay beyond understanding, and the flies. God! The flies!

Henri Michaux
A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.

Henri Michaux
You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.

Henri Michaux
In my night, I besiege my King. I rise up steadily and I wring his neck. He regathers his strength, I come back at him, and wring his neck another time. I shake him, shake him like an old prune tree, and his crown trembles on his head. But nevertheless, he is my King, I know it and he knows it, and it is quite certain that I am at his service.

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No, I have already said it elsewhere. This earth has had all the exoticism washed out of it. If in a hundred years we have not established contact with some other planet (but we will), or, next best, with the earth's interior, humanity is finished. There is no longer a means of living, we explode, we go to war, we perpetrate evil of all sorts; we are, in a word, incapable of remaining any longer on this rind. We are in mortal pain; both from the dimensions as they now stand, and from the lack of any future dimension to which we can turn, now that our tour of the earth has been done to death. (These opinions, I know, are quite sufficient to have me looked down upon as a mind of the fourth order.)

Henri Michaux
It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

Henri Michaux