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“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
― Henry Miller

“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.”
― Henry Miller

“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller

“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”
― Henry Miller

“No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.”
― Henry Miller

“It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.”
― Henry Miller

“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant”
― Henry Miller

“Paint what you like and die happy”
― Henry Miller

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”
― Henry Miller

“Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it”
― Henry Miller

“A good meal, a good talk, a good fuck--what better way to pass the day?”
― Henry Miller, Quiet Days in Clichy

“What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.”
― Henry Miller

“He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals”
― Henry Miller, The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud

“Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”
― Henry Miller

“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart.”
― Henry Miller

“Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity - I belong to the earth!”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Куда бы я ни пришел, везде будут люди со своими драмами. Люди как вши-они забиваются под кожу и остаются там.Вы чешетесь и чешетесь-до крови, но вам никогда не избавиться от этих вшей. Куда бы я ни сунулся, везде люди, делающие ералаш из своей жизни. Несчастье, тоска, грусть, мысли о самоубийстве-это сейчас у всех в крови. Катастрофы, бессмыслица, неудовлетворенность носятся в воздухе. Чешись сколько хочешь, пока не сдерешь кожу. На меня это производит бодрящее впечатление. Ни подавленности, ни разочарования-напротив, даже некоторое удовольствие. Я жажду новых аварий, новых потрясающих несчастий и чудовищных неудач. Пусть мир катится в тартарары. Пусть человечество зачешется до смерти.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.”
― Richard Pryor

“It's dangerous and dirty and smells bad and--"
"Yeah, well, so is sex and drugs and everything else worth doing.”
― Lili St. Crow, Strange Angels

“good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere”
― Helen Gurley Brown

“What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”
― Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir

“Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.”
― Marquis de Sade

“I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.”
― Marquis de Sade

“Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other”
― Marquis de Sade

“True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.”
― Marquis de Sade

“Religions are the cradles of despotism.”
― Marquis de Sade

“Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.”
― Marquis de Sade, Juliette

“Sex either blows your fucking mind, or it’s not good enough.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned