“Man lives by imagination.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“When one is very young, to read is as it were to pour a continuous stream of water on a parched and virginal plain. The soil seemsto have an endless capacity to drink up the stream, sometimes with prolonged perpetual rapture, sometimes with impartial calm indifference…. But when one is no longer young, to read is a very different matter. The parched plain has become a luxuriant forest with lakes and streams in the midst of it. Every image which enters it evokes ancient visions from the depth of its waters, and every tone rustles among the trees with a music so rich in haunting memories that one grows faint beneath their burden.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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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.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Music
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“There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Achievement
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“However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Anger
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“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Civilization
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“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Progress
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“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Pain
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“The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Optimism
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“The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Obstacles
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“To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Leadership
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“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Jealousy
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“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Foolishness
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“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”
Havelock Ellis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Dream
