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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
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However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
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Man lives by imagination.
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All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
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