/it took Henry Miller's more than 10 years to finish the Rosy Crucifixion, describing how he threw everything away to become an artist. mesmerizing moments, sexual encounters and ideas, his relationship with June Miller and her lover, the arts, his days and his nights, everything. 

“Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.”

“Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.”

“From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.”
― Henry Miller, Sexus

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