A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in....


The Rosy Crucifixion I : Sexus (1949), Chapter 1. (New York: Grove Press, c1965, p. 17-18)

Henry Miller Quotes

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he...

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he...

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he...

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he...