Havelock Ellis Quotes

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

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Man lives by imagination.

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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

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If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

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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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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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