Quote by Henry Miller
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. – Henry Miller

Other quotes by Henry Miller

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. – Henry Miller

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communication
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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. – Henry Miller

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Here is the piece. If you cant say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. – Ernest Hemingway

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parsons damn. – Thomas Hardy

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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well. – Yannick Noah

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That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. – Thomas Paine

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