Henry Miller citáty

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„Len žiaľ a trápenie privádza človeka k človeku; zdá sa, že len vtedy sa jeho život stáva krásnym.“

„Čo záleží na tom, akou cestou sa človek prepracuje k pravde, keď sa za ňu zanieti a žije podľa nej?“

„Predstavivosť je hlas odvahy. Ak existuje niečo podobné Bohu, tak je to práve ono. Boh sa odvážil predstaviť si všetko.“

„Láska je čosi osobné a neohraničené, čo sa zmocňuje celého človeka a oslobodzuje od sebectva.“

„Cnosťami nazývame veci, ktoré sme neurobili z lenivosti, zbabelosti alebo hlúposti.“

„Dokonca aj idiot nám môže niečo oznámiť.“

„Zoskočte. Ste chránený jednotlivec. Nebojte sa.“

„Človek môže byť absolútne pravdivý a úprimný, aj keď je tým najprefíkanejším klamárom.“

“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.”

“To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.”

“Everything hinges on how you look at things”

“In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in the long run, is the easiest.”

“Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.”

“The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.”

“Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.”

“Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.”

“There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.”

“Example moves the world more than doctrine.”

“Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it.”

“Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.”

“Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.”

“This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will.”

“That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.”

“For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.”

“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”

“Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.”

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.”

“And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.”

“either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.”

“The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.”

“They never opened the door which leads to the soul.”

“The cancer of time is eating us away”

“One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.”

“What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.”

“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race”

“Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.”

“I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.”