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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
Psychologist
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Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
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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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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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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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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 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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Charm — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
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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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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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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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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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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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Man lives by imagination.
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Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
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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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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
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