"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
-Havelock Ellis
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"The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.“
-Havelock Ellis
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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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-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
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"Love is a friendship set to music."
-Joseph Campbell
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"Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
-Henry Miller
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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
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"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."
-Johann Sebastian Bach
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