Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

—Henry Miller

About Henry Miller

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Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blends character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association,...

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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music—the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

—Henry Miller

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

—Henry Miller

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.

—Henry Miller

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

—Henry Miller

A man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

—Henry Miller

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More quotations tagged with “body”

I stand in awe of my body.

—Henry David Thoreau

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

—Henry David Thoreau

Each body has its art…

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Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

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The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

—George Sheehan

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