Henry Miller Quotes

What Strikes Me Now As The Most Wonderful Proof Of My Fitness, Or Unfitness, For The Times Is The Fact That Nothing People Were Writing Or Talking About Had Any Real Interest For Me. Only The Object Haunted Me, The Separate, Detached, Insignificant Thing. It Might Be A Part Of The Human Body Or A Staircase In A Vaudeville House; It Might Be A Smokestack Or A Button I Had Found In The Gutter. Whatever It Was It Enabled Me To Open Up, To Surrender, To Attach My Signature. To The Life About Me, To The People Who Made Up The World I Knew, I Could Not Attach My Signature. I Was As Definitely Outside Their World As A Cannibal Is Outside The Bounds Of Civilized Society. I Was Filled With A Perverse Love Of The Thing-in-itself - Not A Philosophic Attachment, But A Passionate, Desperately Passionate Hunger, As If In This Discarded, Worthless Thing Which Everyone Ignored There Was Contained The Secret Of My Own Regeneration.

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