Henry Miller Quote

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.


A Henry Miller reader (ed. Riverrun Pr, 1985)


The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.