- Quelle est votre ambition dans la vie ?”
“- Devenir immortel, puis mourir.
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
Henry MillerIf I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.
Henry MillerThe act of dreaming, like a draught of fresh air in an abandoned house, situates the furniture of the mind in a new ambiance.
Henry MillerNow when he closes his eyes he can really look at himself. He no longer sees a mask. He sees without seeing, to be exact. Vision without sight, a fluid grasp of intangibles: the merging of sight and sound: the heart of the web. Here stream the different personalities which evade the crude contact of the senses; here the overtones of recognition discreetly lap against one another in bright, vibrant harmonies. There is no language employed, no outlines delineated. When a ship founders, it settles slowly; the spars, the masts, the rigging float away. On the ocean floor of death the bleeding hull bedecks itself with jewels; remorselessly the anatomic life begins. What was ship becomes the nameless indestructible. Like ships, men founder time and again. Only memory saves them from complete dispersion. Poets drop their stitches in the loom, straws for drowning men to grasp as they sink into extinction. Ghosts climb back on watery stairs, make imaginary ascents, vertiginous drops, memorize numbers, dates, events, in passing from gas to liquid and back again. There is no brain capable of registering the changing changes. Nothing happens in the brain, except the gradual rust and detrition of the cells. But in the minds, worlds unclassified, undenominated, unassimilated, form, break, unite, dissolve and harmonize ceaselessly. In the mind-world ideas are the indestructible elements which form the jewelled constellations of the interior life. We move within their orbits, freely if we follow their intricate patterns, enslaved or possessed if we try to subjugate them.
Henry MillerThe creative side of the female operates imperceptibly: its province is the potential man. When its play is unrestricted the level of the race is raised. One can always gauge the level of a period by the status of its womankind. Something more than freedom and opportunity are here involved because Woman's true nature never expressed itself in demands. Like water, woman always finds her own level. And like water also, she mirrors faithfully all that passes in the soul of man. What is called truly feminine therefore is only the deceptive masquerade which the uncreative male blindly accepts as the real show. It is the flattering substitute which the thwarted female offers in self-defense. It is the homosexual game which Narcissus exacts. It is most flagrantly revealed when the partners are extremely masculine and feminine. It can be mimicked most successfully in the shadow play of the avowed homosexuals. It reaches its blind culmination in the Don Juan. Here the pursuit of the unattainable reaches the burlesk proportions of a Chaplinesque pursuit. The end is always the same: Narcissus drowning in his own image.
Henry MillerΜονάχα οι φονιάδες μοιάζουν ν' αποσπούν απ'τη ζωή κάποιο ικανοποιητικό μέτρο αυτού με το οποίο καταπιάνονται. Η εποχή μας απαιτεί βία, αλλά εμείς δεν παίρνουμε παρά μονάχα κάτι εκτρωματικές μικροεκρήξεις. Οι επαναστάσεις τσακίζονται από τα γεννοφάσκια τους, ή πετυχαίνουν υπερβολικά γρήγορα. Το πάθος εξαντλείται πριν περάσει πολύς καιρός. Οι άνθρωποι ξεμένουν από ιδέες, comme d' habitude. Τίποτα δεν προτείνεται που να μπορεί ν' αντέξει παραπάνω από είκοσι τέσσερις ώρες. Ζούμε ένα εκατομμύριο ζωές στο διάστημα μιας γενιάς.
Henry MillerΕίμαι ένας άνθρωπος ελεύθερος - και την έχω ανάγκη την ελευθερία μου. Έχω ανάγκη να στοχαστώ για την αισχύνη και την απόγνωσή μου, απομονωμένος - έχω ανάγκη το ηλιόφωτο και τους λιθόστρωτους δρόμους δίχως συνοδούς, δίχως συνομιλίες, ενώπιος ενωπίω με τον εαυτό μου, μονάχα με της καρδιάς μου τη μουσική για συντροφιά. Όταν έχω κάτι να δώσω, το δίνω. Η ληστρική περιέργειά σας μου γυρίζει τα έντερα! Οι φιλοφρονήσεις σας με εξευτελίζουν! Το τσάι σας με δηλητηριάζει! Δεν χρωστάω τίποτε και σε κανέναν. Μονάχα απέναντι στον Θεό θα ήμουν υπεύθυνος, σ' Αυτόν μονάχα θα λογοδοτούσα - εάν Αυτός υπήρχε!
Henry MillerTags: ελευθερία
La gente cree que el vacío es la nada, pero no lo es. El vacío es una plenitud discordante, un mundo atestado de fantasmas en que el alma se hace un reconocimiento.
Henry MillerMost of the young men of talent whom I have met in this country give one the impression of being somewhat demented. Why shouldn't they? They are living amidst spiritual gorillas, living with food and drink maniacs, success-mongers, gadget innovators, publicity hounds. God, if I were a young man today, if I were faced with a world such as we have created, I would blow my brains out.
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