I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. — Henry Miller · Skopia

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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Tropic of Cancer · 1934

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Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Obelisk Press, 1934.

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