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Quotes by Havelock Ellis
- The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
- 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.
- The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
- 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.
- The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
- The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
- The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
- There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
- There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
- 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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