I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

Henry Miller
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  2. She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away. - Rainbow Rowell

  3. Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - William Shakespeare

  4. Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. - Irvin D. Yalom

  5. Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.. - Dr. Seuss

More Quotes By Henry Miller
  1. What's a fuck when what I want is love?

  2. Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

  3. Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  4. The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

  5. Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

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