Havelock Ellis Quotes
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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 absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
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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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“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
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“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”
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“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”
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“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”
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“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
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“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
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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.”