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Havelock Ellis
February 2, 1859 - July 8, 1939
Nationality: British
Category: Psychologist

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

   

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

   

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

   

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

   

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

   

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

   

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

   

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