I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

Henry Miller
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Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ✨ Henry Miller (1941). The Wisdom of the Heart, p.93, New Directions Publishing
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the jitterbug. Night and day without l … ▶
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. ✨ Henry Miller (1961). Tropic of Capricorn, Grove/Atlantic
People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused. ✨ Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). A … ▶
I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the el … ▶

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