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Man lives by imagination.

Havelock Ellis

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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
Imagination
Lives
Men

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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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The mother is the child's supreme parent.
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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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So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.
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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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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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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
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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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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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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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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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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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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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No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.
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