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Havelock Ellis
English sexual psychologist
| “ | 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. | ” |
| “ | The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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| “ | Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. | ” |
| “ | 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 reach of predatory human hands.
"The Dance of Life", 1923 | ” |
| “ | The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Impressions and Comments (1914) | ” |
| “ | The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
The Dance of Life | ” |
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