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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
Physician
Psychologist
Writer
Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
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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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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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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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Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the name of a thing.
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The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.
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