Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller
United States
26 Dec 1891 // 7 Jun 1980
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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.

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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

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I have found God, but he is insufficient.

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Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

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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.

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Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

 

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