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The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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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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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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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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However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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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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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.
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Liberty is always unfinished business
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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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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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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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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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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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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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Man lives by imagination.
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