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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
Physician
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Henry Havelock Ellis
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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
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For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
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The mother is the child's supreme parent.
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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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The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
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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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No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
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Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
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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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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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