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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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Henry Havelock Ellis
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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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Liberty is always unfinished business
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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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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No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
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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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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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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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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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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 mother is the child's supreme parent.
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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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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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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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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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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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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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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