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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

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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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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.
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Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
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There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
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Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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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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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
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The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
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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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Charm — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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Liberty is always unfinished business
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On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.
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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 relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
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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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Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.
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