# Quote — Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

> Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

- Author: [Henry Miller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-miller.md)
- Book: [Tropic of Capricorn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-miller/tropic-of-capricorn.md)
- Page: 170
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Miller#Tropic_of_Capricorn_(novel)_(1939)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [knowledge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-miller/tropic-of-capricorn/confusion-is-a-word

## More from this book

> Take a good look at me. Now tell me, do you think I'm the sort of fellow who gives a fuck what happens once he's dead?

p. 313 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-miller/tropic-of-capricorn/take-a-good.md)

Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md)

> To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or you don't have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

p. 108 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-miller/tropic-of-capricorn/to-walk-in-money.md)

Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md)