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Sexus
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"Sexus" Quotes

A controversial and explicit exploration of sexuality and desire in 20th-century America.

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Henry Miller

lovehistory

For a woman to be a virgin, she must be a corpse.

Henry Miller

sexsociety

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

Henry Miller

sexlove

All my life I have had a great yearning to be loved by many.

Henry Miller

lovedesire

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

love

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere.

Henry Miller

failurehope

Sex is the ersatz or substitute for the supreme experience, for the ultimate union with the godhead.

Henry Miller

sexspirituality

The only thing we are certain of is that we are living in a world of ambiguity.

Henry Miller

uncertaintylife

The only thing one can be guilty of is having been born.

Henry Miller

guiltexistence

The world is not to be put in order. The world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

Henry Miller

worldorder