“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. ”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
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