"Tropic of Cancer" Quotes
An expatriate writer navigates the chaotic and immoral world of Paris in the 1930s.
fiction | 272 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
I want nothing. I long for nothing. I am free.
Destruction is the only form of creation.
She was my whore and I was her pimp.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
I am motivated by the purpose of the spirit which projects me beyond myself.
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
I wanted to forget everything.
The only thing that counts is what you're drippin' from your fingertips.





