The man whom God loves is truly a right living man. The man whom God loves is the onion with a million skins. To shed the first layer is painful beyond words; the next layer is less painful, the next still less, until finally the pain becomes pleasurable, more and more pleasurable, a delight, an ecstasy. And then there is neither pleasure not pain, but simply darkness yielding before the light.
 Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (1939). copy citation

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Author Henry Miller
Source Tropic of Capricorn
Topic darkness pain
Date 1939
Language English
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