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Quotes from Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch — Henry Miller

1891–1980 United States

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There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)

It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Miller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.