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.
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won. - Havelock Ellis
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
- Havelock Ellis
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. - Havelock Ellis
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. - Havelock Ellis
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. - Havelock Ellis
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. - Havelock Ellis
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. - Havelock Ellis
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. - Havelock Ellis
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. - Havelock Ellis
Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. - Havelock Ellis
However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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