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First volume in the Rosy Crucifixion Series, originally published not by the Olympia Press, but rather Editions du Chene, Girodias' prior imprint (he was forced out after financial difficulties). Sexus is among Miller's most diverting works, at times erudite, dull, erotic and tame, chronicling... read more
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- Maude
- O'mara
- Dr. Kronski
- Arthur Raymond
- Ulric
- Elsie
- O'rourke
- Rebecca
- Melanie
- Dolores
- Mister Miller
- Irma
- Henry
- Macgregor
- Carruthers
- Valerie
- Curley
- Marcel Le
- Juan
- Dr. Onirifick
- George Marshall
- Sheldon
- Lola
- Ned
- Florrie
- Ghompal
- Sheridan
- Georgie
- Spivak
- Clancy
- Joey
- Cleo
- Stanley
- Julie
- Tony
- Mr. Harcourt
- Irene
- Mr. Twilliger
- Miriam
- Dostoevski
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“There are moments when the unnatural commingling of eight million people gives birth to floral pieces of blackest insanity. The Marquis de Sade was as lucid and reasonable as a cucumber. Sacher-Masoch was a pearl of equanimity. Blue Beard was as gentle as a dove.”
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To love or be loved is no crime. The really criminal thing is to make a person believe that he or she is the only one you could ever love.
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You can't make people joyous just by being joyous yourself. Joy has to be generated by oneself: it is or it isn't. Joy is founded on something too profound to be understood and communicated. To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
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No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
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To be intelligent may be a boon, but to be completely trusting, gullible to the point of idiocy, to surrender without reservation, is one of the supreme joys of life.
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To break a habit, establish a new rhythm-simple devices, long known to the ancients. It never failed. Break down the old pattern, the worn-out connections, and the spirit breaks loose, establishes new polarities, creates new tensions, bequeaths new vitality.
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat-at least that is my experience. Then they either fail you utterly or they surpass themselves. Sorrow is the great link-sorrow and misfortune. But when you are testing your powers, when you are trying to do something new, the best friend is apt to prove a traitor.
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Language only begins at the point where communication is endangered. Everything these people are saying to one another, everything they read, everything they regulate their lives by is meaningless.
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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
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The coward is often buried beneath the very wall against which he huddled in fear and anguish.
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A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of all that is fluid and intangible. Which is to say, the universe.
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First Sentence edit
It must have been a Thursday night when I met her for the first time-at the dance hall.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 3 in The Rosy Crucifixion. (standard series)
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Henry Miller (Author)
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- Dewey: 813.52
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