British - Psychologist | February 2, 1859 - July 8, 1939
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
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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.
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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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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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
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