Author: Havelock Ellis

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Havelock Ellis

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

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

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

- Havelock Ellis

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

- Havelock Ellis

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

- Havelock Ellis

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

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 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.

- Havelock Ellis

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

- Havelock Ellis

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