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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.
Category: Charm Author: Havelock Ellis
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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.
Category: Dancing Author: 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.
Category: Environment Author: Havelock Ellis
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Category: Jealousy Author: Havelock Ellis
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To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
Category: Life Author: Havelock Ellis
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Category: Life Author: Havelock Ellis
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The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: Havelock Ellis
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Category: Optimism and Pessimism Author: Havelock Ellis
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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
Category: Society Author: Havelock Ellis
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Category: Technology Author: 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.
Category: Thinking Author: Havelock Ellis
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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.
Category: War Author: Havelock Ellis
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Category: War Author: Havelock Ellis
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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.
Category: Writing Author: Havelock Ellis
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