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Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

Henry Miller
Sex, War, Obscenity

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

Henry Miller
War, Common Sense, Shadow
Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

Henry Miller
Death, Sex, War
Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured-disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui-in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.

Henry Miller
Fear, War, Eye
Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.

Henry Miller
Christian, Crazy, War

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

Henry Miller
War, Men, Space
Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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