"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
-Havelock Ellis
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"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.“
-Havelock Ellis
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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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