Quotes by Havelock Ellis

Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis, was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology.

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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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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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