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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. - [Meeting] How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - [Women] I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself. - [Friendship] Jazz is the music of the body. - [Music] Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - [Courage] Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - [Music] The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. - [Artists] Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. - [Dreams] We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - [Perception] We see things not as they are but as we are. - [Sight] There was a Hungarian adventurer who had astonishing beauty, infallible charm, grace, the powers of a trained actor, culture, knowledge of many tongues, aristocratic manners. Beneath all of this was a genius for intrigue, for slipping out of difficulties, for moving in and out of countries. - Delta of Venus: Erotica, the short story The Hungarian Adventurer [Books (First Lines)] [April, 1940] A book collector offered Henry Miller a hundred dollars a month to write erotic stories. It seemed like a Dantesque punishment to condemn Henry to write erotica at a dollar a page. - Delta of Venus: Erotica (preface), a collection of short stories [Books (First Lines)]
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