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Tropic of Capricorn

Name: Tropic of Capricorn
Author: Henry Miller

Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published by Obelisk Press in Paris in 1939. A prequel of sorts to Miller's first published novel, 1934's Tropic of Cancer, it was banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene.

“I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.”

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“To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or you don't have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money?”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Capricorn (1939)

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn

A fragment of Miller's unfinished book on D. H. Lawrence, originally published in the London literary journal Purpose.
Source: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) "Creative Death", p. 2

“Take a good look at me. Now tell me, do you think I'm the sort of fellow who gives a fuck what happens once he's dead?”

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Source: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) New York: Grove Press, 1961, p. 313

“For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.”

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“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Capricorn http://books.google.com/books?id=_HAhCxNs-QUC&lpg=PA176&q=&quot;Confusion+is+a+word+we+have+invented+for+an+order+which+is+not+understood&quot;&pg=PA176#v=onepage (1939)

“Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!”

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“Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.”

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“The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn

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