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Havelock Ellis

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Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He developed the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis.

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Quotes from Havelock Ellis

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

—Havelock Ellis

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

—Havelock Ellis

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

—Havelock Ellis

Man lives by imagination.

—Havelock Ellis

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

—Havelock Ellis

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

—Havelock Ellis

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

—Havelock Ellis

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

—Havelock Ellis