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Havelock Ellis5 quotes
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. — Havelock Ellis · 1922Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. — Havelock Ellis · 1923It is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. — Havelock Ellis · 1923The 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. — Havelock Ellis · 1914The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. — Havelock Ellis · 1922