“I am the wound and the blade, the torturer and the flayed.”
― The Flowers of Evil
― The Flowers of Evil
“If you consider a woman less pure after you’ve touched her
maybe you should take a looks at your hands.”
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maybe you should take a looks at your hands.”
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“I tried to think what I had loved knives for, but my mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung, like a bird, in the centre of empty air.”
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“I am a very boring and unpleasant man, drowned in literature... But I love you.”
― Letters to Vera
― Letters to Vera
“I spell ‘god’ with a small ‘g’ because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.”
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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