Henry Miller - The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)

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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Henry Miller
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Henry Miller
To be free, as I then knew myself to be, is to realize that all conquest is vain, even the conquest of self, which is the last act of egotism. To be joyous is to carry the ego to its last summit and to deliver it triumphantly. To know peace is total: it is the moment after, when the surrenderer is complete, when there is no longer even the consciounsness of surrender. Peace is at the centre and when it is attainded the voice issues forth in praise and benediction. Then the voice carries far and wide, to the outermost limits of the universe. Then it heals, because it brings light and the warmth of compassion.

Henry Miller
It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how... and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

Henry Miller
France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

Henry Miller
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

Henry Miller
Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

Henry Miller