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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.

— Havelock Ellis

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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922)

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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