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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
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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 second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated—of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
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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 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 faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
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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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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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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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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
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No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
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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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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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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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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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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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