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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

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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
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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 relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
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When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the name of a thing.
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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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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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 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 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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No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
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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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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
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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 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 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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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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