Havelock Ellis

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.

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.