“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”
― Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
― Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.”
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
“I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.”
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
“If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.”
― Crave
― Crave
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