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")
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Naktis kybojo virš žeme.s, aštri kaip durklas, girta kaip pamiše.le..Henry Miller
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.
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I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
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No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
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