Henry Miller, in a letter to Anaïs Nin, d. March 4, 1932, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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Suffering is unnecessary. But, one has to suffer before he is able to realize that this is so. It is only then, moreover, that the true significance of human suffering becomes clear. At the last desperate moment, when one can suffer no more, something happens which is the nature of a miracle. The great wound which was draining the blood of life closes up, the organism blossoms like a rose. One is free at last...with a yearning for ever more freedom, ever more bliss. The tree of life is kept alive not by tears but the knowledge that freedom is real and everlasting.
Henry Miller
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I'll Eat You Up, I Love You So
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“You don’t know what a wild, crazy longing I have, what an ache there is inside me.”
Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June
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from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller (1932-1953)
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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.
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
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Don't look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.
Henry Miller
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Don't look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.
Henry Miller
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Anaïs Nin, in a letter to Henry Miller d. Feb. 22, 1932, in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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Don't look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.
Henry Miller
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“I want you desperately. I want your strength and your softness, your hands, all of you.”
Anaïs Nin, from ‘A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953’
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Don't look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.
Henry Miller
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from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller (1932-1953)
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"I don't know what I'm looking for. Maybe it's just a hole to crawl into, a place to hide from the world. Or maybe it's something else entirely. Maybe it's something I can't even imagine yet." - Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller.
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Henry Miller, from “Tropic of Capricorn”
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