To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that something of a miracle.
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Tropic of Cancer
Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself i
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To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.’
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love.
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
The only true obscenity is war.’
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.