Quotes by Havelock Ellis
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
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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 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 place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
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Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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