eskimo pies ([info]adroit_theatre) wrote in [info]literaryquotes,
@ 2008-11-27 00:07:00
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Sexus - Henry Miller
"A man who has confidence in himself must have confidence in others, confidence in the fitness and rightness of the universe. When a man is thus anchored he ceases to worry about the fitness of things, about the behavior of his fellow men, about the right and wrong and justice and injustice. If his roots are in the current of life he will float on the surface like a lotus and he will blossom and give forth fruit. He will draw his nourishment from above and below; he will send his roots down deeper and deeper, fearing neither the depths nor the heights. The life that is in him will manifest itself in growth, and growth is an endless, eternal process. He will not be afraid of withering, because decay and death are part of growth. As a seed he began and as a seed he will return."



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[info]dignam
2008-11-27 06:10 am UTC (link)
Thanks for this. It's been a few years since I last read any Henry Miller. I remember why I shouldn't have forgot.

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[info]adroit_theatre
2008-11-27 06:12 am UTC (link)
:) I carry him with me everywhere.

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[info]hallow000
2008-11-27 06:13 am UTC (link)
i loved the rosy crucification. thanks for posting.

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[info]adroit_theatre
2008-11-27 06:17 am UTC (link)
I still have yet to finish Plexus. I'm always losing my place, beginning over or jumping ahead. The third book I haven't even attempted at, but Sexus... dogeared and tattered, it's my favorite of his and greater than any other.

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[info]christophrawr
2008-11-27 04:10 pm UTC (link)
One of my favorites. *nod*

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[info]educate_sedate
2008-11-29 07:03 pm UTC (link)
Love it, added to my quotes collection.

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