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Henry Valentine Miller foi um escritor norte-americano.Seu estilo é caracterizado pela mistura de autobiografia com ficção. Muitas vezes lembrado como escritor pornográfico, escreveu também livros de viagem e ensaios sobre literatura e arte. O autor foi homenageado pelo célebre crítico Otto Maria Carpeaux em prefácio para o livro O Mundo do Sexo, editora Pallas 1975, Rio de Janeiro.

Uma de suas amantes foi a escritora Anais Nin. Há um filme ficcional sobre o período da vida em que eles se conheceram, Henry and June, baseado nos diários de Anaïs. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Dezembro 1891 – 7. Junho 1980  •  Outros nomes Henry Valentine Miller
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Henry Miller Frases famosas

Citações de vida de Henry Miller

“Tudo se suporta… a desgraça, humilhação, pobreza, guerra, crime, ennui… em nome da crença de que, de um dia para o outro, algo ocorrerá, um milagre que fará com que a vida se torne tolerável.”

Henry Miller livro Trópico de Câncer

Tropic of Cancer

“Desenvolva o interesse pela vida, como você a vê, as pessoas, coisas, literatura, música, o mundo é tão rico, simplesmente pulsando com seus tesouros, com as almas das pessoas bonitas e interessantes.”

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“Todo lugar que eu vou as pessoas estão fazendo uma bagunça de suas vidas. Todo mundo tem sua tragédia privada. Está no sangue agora - infelicidade, tédio, tristeza, suicídio. A atmosfera está saturada de desastre, frustração, futilidade. Raspe e risque, até não restar pele. No entanto, o efeito sobre mim é estimulante. Em vez de ficar desanimado ou deprimido, eu gosto disso. Eu estou chorando por mais e mais desastres, por calamidades maiores, grandes fracassos. Eu quero que o mundo inteiro esteja fora de sintonia, quero que todos se cocem até a morte.”

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Citações de mundo de Henry Miller

“Se sou inumano é porque meu mundo transbordou de suas fronteiras humanas, porque ser humano parece uma coisa pobre, triste, miserável, limitada pelos sentidos, restringida pelas moralidades e pelos códigos, definida pelos lugares-comuns e 'ismos'."
(Trópico de Câncer)”

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“Para o homem que trabalha nas estrebarias e cuja função é varrer o esterco, o terror supremo é um mundo sem cavalos”

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“Um gênio a procura de emprego: eis aí uma das visões mais tristes deste mundo. Não se encaixa em lugar nenhum, ninguém o quer. É desajustado, diz o mundo.”

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“Enquanto vivermos com a consciência de nós próprios, nunca conseguiremos lidar com o mundo”

Henry Miller livro Sexus

Sexus

“‎Se houvesse um homem que ousase dizer tudo quanto pensa deste mundo,
não lhe restaria um palmo quadrado de terra onde ficar.”

Henry Miller livro Trópico de Câncer

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller frases e citações

“Se Deus não é amor, não vale a pena que exista.”

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“Na Grécia a gente tem vontade de se banhar no céu.”

Henry Miller livro The Colossus of Maroussi

In Greece one has the desire to bathe in the sky.
The colossus of Maroussi‎ - Página 159, de Henry Miller - New Directions Publishing, 1958, ISBN 0811201090, 9780811201094 - 244 páginas

“Devia ter sido um palhaço. Isso ter-me-ia proporcionado o mais vasto campo de expressão. Mas subestimava a profissão. Se me tivesse tornado palhaço, ou até actor de vaudeville, teria sido famoso. As pessoas não me teriam compreendido, mas teriam compreendido que eu não era para ser compreendido. Isso pelo menos teria sido um alívio.”

Henry Miller livro Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Capricorn

“Não há mais livros a escrever, graças a Deus. E isto então? Isto não é um livro. Isto é injúria, calúnia, difamação de caráter. Isto não é um livro, no sentido comum da palavra. Não, isto é um prolongado insulto, uma cusparada na cara da Arte, um pontapé no traseiro de Deus, do Homem, do Destino, do Tempo, do Amor, da Beleza… e do que mais quiserem. Vou cantar para você, um pouco desafinado talvez, mas vou cantar. Cantarei enquanto você coaxa, dançarei sobre seu cadáver sujo… Para cantar é preciso primeiro abrir a boca. É preciso ter um par de pulmões e um pouco de conhecimento de música.”

Henry Miller livro Trópico de Câncer

Trópico de Câncer

“A ciência ainda procura, o amor encontrou.”

Henry Miller

Fonte: Revista Caras, 13 de Setembro de 2006.

“A melhor maneira de matar um artista é lhe dar tudo o que ele precisa.”

Henry Miller

the surest way to kill an artist is to supply him with everything he needs.
The paintings of Henry Miller: paint as you like and die happy : with ...‎ - Página 77, de Henry Miller, Noel Young - publicado por Chronicle Books, 1982, ISBN 0877012768, 9780877012764 - 143 páginas

“Nenhum escritor é bom a não ser que tenha sofrido.”

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“Cada guerra é uma destruição do espírito humano.”

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“A imaginação é a voz do atrevimento.”

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“Se chamares experiências às tuas dificuldades e recordares que cada experiência te ajuda a amadurecer, vais crescer vigoroso e feliz, não importa quão adversas pareçam as circunstâncias.”

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“Cada momento é de ouro se o soubermos reconhecer como tal.”

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“O momento mais selvagem da vida - ela se ajoelha na calçada. Tudo o mais que ela faz é mentira, mentira.”

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Henry Miller: Frases em inglês

“There's something perverse about women… they're all masochists at heart.”

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Henry Miller livro Trópico de Câncer

Fonte: Tropic of Cancer

“Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.”

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“have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.”

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“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart.”

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Variante: It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state of god-like awareness one sings; in this realm the world exists as poem.”

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Fonte: Wisdom of the Heart

“My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world.”

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“But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.”

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Henry Miller livro Trópico de Câncer

Fonte: Tropic of Cancer

“Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.”

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Henry Miller livro Trópico de Câncer

Fonte: Tropic of Cancer

“The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.”

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“My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.”

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Henry Miller livro Plexus

Fonte: The Rosy Crucifixion II: Plexus (1953), p. 61

“If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.”

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The Books in My Life (1952) Chapter 11: The Story of My Heart (2nd edition. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1969, p. 192)

“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.”

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Henry Miller livro The Colossus of Maroussi

The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)

“She was to me, and still is, the greatest person I have known - one who can truly be called a "devoted" soul. I owe her everything.”

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Letters of Henry Miller and Wallace Fowlie (1975)

“To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or you don't have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money?”

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Henry Miller livro Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Capricorn (1939)

“The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.”

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Henry Miller livro The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

With Edgar Varèse in the Gobi Desert http://books.google.com/books?id=jAEY3Kbnj3oC&q="The+new+always+carries+with+it+the+sense+of+violation+of+sacrilege+What+is+dead+is+sacred+what+is+new+that+is+different+is+evil+dangerous+or+subversive"&pg=PA172#v=onepage, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945)

“The Happiest peoples, it is said, are those which have no history. Those who have a history, those who have made history seem only to have emphazied through their acomplishments the eternality of struggle. These disappear too eventually, just as those who made no effort, who were content to merely live & enjoy.”

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Fonte: Henry Miller on Writing (1964)

“Through it all I learned the value of being humble to the dust, reduced to ashes. Everyone should experience that. Before you can recognize you're somebody, you have to know you're nobody. [-] The butterfly was just a lowly worm in its beginning. The worm didn't live with the moment-to-moment expectation of sprouting wings and taking flight. He lived a useful and productive life, the life of a worm. And he had to die a worm in order to be born as an angel! The spinning of the cocoon is, in and of itself, remarkable. It is as wondrous as the emergence and first flight of the butterfly.”

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Reflections (1981)

“For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens.”

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Henry Miller livro Trópico de Câncer

Fonte: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter Two

“The man who doesn't respond to music, the man without music in his soul is not to be trusted. A man like that is cold and empty, empty to the core.”

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Reflections (1981)

“One day, during one of their sessions, Gurdjieff tells Peters to look out the window and describe what he sees. 'An oak tree' the child answers. 'And what do you see on the oak tree?' 'Acorns' Peters replies. 'How many of these acorns do you suppose will become trees?' Fritz Peters is stumped, [-] 'Maybe five or six?'
'No' retorts Gurdjieff. 'Only one will become a tree, perhaps, none! Nature is always very giving, but it only gives possibility. It takes hard work and great effort to become a tree or a genuine man.”

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Reflections (1981)

“Through art then, one finally establishes contact with reality: that is the great discovery. Here all is play and invention; there is no solid foothold from which to launch the projectiles which will pierce the miasma of folly, ignorance and greed. The world has not to be put in order: the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order, to know what is the world order in contradistinction to the wishful-thinking orders which we seek to impose on one another. The power which we long to possess, in order to establish the good, the true and the beautiful, would prove to be, if we could have it, but the means of destroying one another. It is fortunate that we are powerless.”

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Fonte: Miller, H. (1969). “Creation,” The Henry Miller Reader. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation. p.33.

“Take a good look at me. Now tell me, do you think I'm the sort of fellow who gives a fuck what happens once he's dead?”

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Henry Miller livro Tropic of Capricorn

Fonte: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) New York: Grove Press, 1961, p. 313

“I am a free man-and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion. I need sunshine and paving tones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me. Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to anyone, I would've responsible to God alone-if he exited!”

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Henry Miller livro Trópico de Câncer

Fonte: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter Four, Pappin

“I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.”

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Henry Miller livro The Colossus of Maroussi

Fonte: The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) Part 2, p. 133

“The great ones do not set up offices, charge fees, give lectures, or write books. Wisdom is silent, and the most effective propaganda for truth is the force of personal example. The great ones attract disciples, lesser figures whose mission is to preach and to teach. These are gospelers who, unequal to the highest task, spend their lives in converting others. The great ones are indifferent, in the profoundest sense. They don't ask you to believe: they electrify you by their behavior. They are the awakeners.”

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Henry Miller livro Sexus

Fonte: Sexus