“ If at any moment anywhere one comes face to face with the absolute, that great sympathy which makes men like Gautama and Jesus seem divine freezes away; 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. ”
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934). copy citation
Author | Henry Miller |
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Source | Tropic of Cancer |
Topic | sympathy reason |
Date | 1934 |
Language | English |
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