Quotation by Henry Miller

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.
Henry Miller
Henry Miller (1891–1980), U.S. author. "An Open Letter to Surrealists Everywhere," The Cosmological Eye (1939).

On the subject of surrealism, Miller wrote earlier in the same essay, "I was writing Surrealistically in America before I had ever heard the word."
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