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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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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
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However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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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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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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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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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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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
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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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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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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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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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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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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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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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Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
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