Tropic of Cancer Quotes

“We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:time

“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:time

“There’s something perverse about women... they’re all masochists at heart.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:women heart

“I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It isn’t that I think myself so important... I simply can’t think about anything else, that’s all.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:self

“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:God

“Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the misers of learning.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:wisdom learning

“When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:reality

“For the moment I can think of nothing—except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:world

“The world around me is dissolving, leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away… I am thinking that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:world music silence

“I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:writing action

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