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«All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Lies
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Art of Living, fine, fine art, fine arts, holding, letting, mingles, mingling
«In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, matters, met, The Goal
«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»
«Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.»
«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.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
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height, nervous, population, prevalence, snapped, snapping, snaps, snap at, tension, utmost, winding, windings
«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»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
instinctive, livable, network, restrained, taboo, 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.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
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ancestors, antelope, conscientiously, curious, Darwin, disgust, elephant, Elephant Man, evolution, instinctive, nearest, relations, ridicule, spared, The Elephant, The Elephant Man, traced
«All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| About:
Civilization,
Revolution
| Keywords:
crust, Crusts, from time to time, volcano, volcanoes
«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.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Angel, fallen, fallen angel, fight back, musicians, perpetually, Satan, seeking, the darkness, vague
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