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Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself.Havelock Ellis
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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.Havelock Ellis
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We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.Havelock Ellis
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The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.Havelock Ellis
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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.Havelock Ellis
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Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.Havelock Ellis
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Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.Havelock Ellis
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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.Havelock Ellis
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Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.Havelock Ellis
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In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.Havelock Ellis
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What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.Havelock Ellis
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Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.Havelock Ellis
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However well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks.Havelock Ellis
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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.Havelock Ellis
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.Havelock Ellis
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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.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.Havelock Ellis
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.Havelock Ellis
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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.Havelock Ellis
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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.Havelock Ellis
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.Havelock Ellis
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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.Havelock Ellis
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Man lives by imagination.Havelock Ellis
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.Havelock Ellis
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.Havelock Ellis
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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.Havelock Ellis
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.Havelock Ellis
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In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.Havelock Ellis
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.Havelock Ellis
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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.Havelock Ellis
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.Havelock Ellis