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«All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.»
«In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way»
«The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands»
«The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum»
Author: Havelock Ellis | About: Optimism | Keywords: asylum, asylums, flourishes, lunatic, optimism
«Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.»
Author: Havelock Ellis | About: Jealousy | Keywords: dragon, jealousy, keeping, pretence, slays
«The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.»
«Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos»
«It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.»
«All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution»
«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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