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What belongs to me is mind and nothing can take it from me.
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
I want to be harsh now—in order to liberate you.
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
These things are bridges to something. But it must be a firm bridge. Otherwise there’s no crossing.
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
I am amazed at my own selfishness.
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
Tear it all down, if you like, and build anew. But don’t give up—because this is a test.
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
I could have killed her—and I know she felt likewise.
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
And now I am angry. I want to stay and see it out to the bitter end. I’ve done what I thought was kind and just. If that doesn’t appeal then I’ll use harsher methods.
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
I will face anything that’s coming to me—and there may be worse to face.
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
No, don’t you kneel to me—it is you who are great, and I am just a sort of reflection, a light you had kindled.
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
You can crush a human being, if you try hard enough. But is that worthwhile?
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
I have come here to be us, to be myself and to choose you,
Alice Notley, from Certain Magical Acts
I won’t reject love and friendship. I won’t live alone on a frozen mountain peak.
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
What shall I do? I’m wretched.
Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
You have asked things of me which are humanly unbearable. You have asked me to thrive on a half love,
Henry Miller,A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
I have come too close to you. You may say I am fighting a destiny, something which cannot be fought like this. But I want to try.
Anaïs Nin,A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
I don’t know what I expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you—even the impossible, because you encourage it.
Henry Miller,A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
