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“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”

- Havelock Ellis

Source/Notes: The Dance of Life (1923)

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“A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.”

- Havelock Ellis

Source/Notes: Impressions and Comments (1915)

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“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

- Havelock Ellis

Source/Notes: Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922)

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

- Havelock Ellis

Source/Notes: Affirmations (1915 edition)

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“At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.”

- Havelock Ellis

Source/Notes: Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922)

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“Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.”

- Havelock Ellis

Source/Notes: Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922)

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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.”

- Havelock Ellis

Source/Notes: The Task of Social Hygiene (1912)

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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

Source/Notes: The Dance of Life (1923)

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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

Source/Notes: Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922)

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“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”

- Havelock Ellis

Source/Notes: The New Spirit

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“Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.”

- Havelock Ellis

Source/Notes: As quoted in: Littell's Living Age, Volume 302, E. Littell & Company, 1919, p. 222, "Leonardo da Vinci by Havelock Ellis"

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“Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.”

- Havelock Ellis

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“For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.”

- 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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