Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blends character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, which are based on his experiences in New York City and Paris, and all of which were banned in the United States until 1961.
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Trending topics shown first"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."
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
"Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is."
"The frantic desire to Live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of the death rhythm."
"We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole w…"
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