"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
-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.“
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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
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"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."
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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."
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"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
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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."
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