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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
Physician
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Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
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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 place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
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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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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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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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The mother is the child's supreme parent.
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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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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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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