Quotations

"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"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, American writer, born 1891

"Night is longing, longing, longing, beyond all endurance."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"Instead of asking How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask How much good? How much joy?"

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"No question that German civilians knew what went on. Railway into Dachau camp runs past villa, with trains of dead or semi-dead deportees. I usually don’t take pictures of horrors. But don’t think that every town and every area isn’t rich with them. I hope Vogue will feel it can publish these pictures."

— Lee Miller, American photographer, born 1907

"I took some pictures of the place [Hitler’s residence] and I also got a good night’s sleep in Hitler’s bed. I even washed the dirt of Dachau in his tub."

— Lee Miller, American photographer, born 1907

"It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power."

— Jean-Francois Millet, French painter, born 1814

"Well, said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called."

— A. A. Milne, English author, born 1882

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."

— A. A. Milne, English author, born 1882

"How do you spell 'love'?' Piglet.'You don't spell it...you feel it.' Pooh"

— A. A. Milne, English author, born 1882