Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Quote: to be human

Via Carl Hiassen's 1995 novel, Stormy Weather:

"Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. Today I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity--I belong to the earth! I say that lying on my pillow and I can feel the horns sprouting from my temples."
-- from Tropic of Cancer (1934), by Henry Miller

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