"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."
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"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."
Ellen Key"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."
Ellen Key"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."
Ellen Key"Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society."
Ellen Key"Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such."
Ellen Key"When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace."
Ellen Key"While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased."
Ellen Key"Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity."
Ellen Key