Henry Valentine Miller was born on December 26, 1891. He was a famous American artist and writer. He broke all existing literary forms and developed a completely new type of novel called a semi-autobiographical novel, that mingled character study, philosophical reflection, social criticism, stream of consciousness, sex, explicit language, mysticism, and surrealist free association.
Most of his early books were banned in the United States for being obscene but soon they became popular in Europe after they were first published in Paris. He was a very talented artist, he painted nearly thousands of watercolors paintings during his lifetime.
He once said that he has found God, but the God he found is insufficient. He said this in his famous novel “Tropic of Cancer”.
Henry Miller’s Book:
The Books in My Life
Author: Henry Miller
Henry Miller: A Life
Author: Henry Miller
Plexus: The Rosy Crucifixion
Author: Henry Miller
The Wisdom of the Heart
Author: Henry Miller
The Colossus of Maroussi
Author: Henry Miller
Sunday After the War
Author: Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
Author: Henry Miller
Quotes by Henry Miller :
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
Henry Miller
“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.”
Henry Miller
“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.”
Henry Miller
“This keeping oneself alive, out of a blind urge to defeat death, is in itself a means of sowing death. Every one who has not fully accepted life, who is not incrementing life, is helping to fill the world with death.”
Henry Miller
“Life has to be given a meaning, because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
Henry Miller
“Strange as it may seem today to say, 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.”
Henry Miller
“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”
Henry Miller
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What is Henry Valentine Miller famous for?
Henry Miller was a U.S. writer whose autobiographical novels achieve a candor—particularly about sex—that made them a liberating influence in mid-20th-century literature. He became well known for his work – Tropic of Cancer Black Spring Tropic of Capricorn The Colossus of Maroussi The Rosy Crucifixion
What did Henry Valentine Miller write about?
Henry Miller wrote on multiple topics right from values, emotions, ethics, culture, religion to human behavior.
What was Henry Miller’s first book?
Tropic of Cancer was his first published book by Obelisk Press in Paris.
Why is it called the Tropic of Cancer?
The word “tropic” is from the Greek language, which means “belonging to a turn of the sun at the solstice,” and Cancer means “crab” in Latin, is the name of a constellation beneath which the Tropic of Cancer once was directly located.
