Henry Miller- Tropic Of Cancer

The theme of sexual and artistic liberation, which pervades Tropic of Cancer in its poetic embrace of sexuality, its open disdain for the constraints of bourgeois modern society and the resulting degeneracy of its literature. In reacting against conventional art and morality. Breaking with existing literary forms, developing a new form of narrative incorporating elements of 'stream of consciousness' writing and a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, and philosophical reflection.

"Going back in a flash over the women I've known. It's like a chain which I've forged out of my own misery. Each one bound to the other."

"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. "

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."