Quote by Havelock Ellis
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with pray

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. – Havelock Ellis

Other quotes by Havelock Ellis

Dancing 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

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Dance, Dancing
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Charm – which means the power to effect work without employing brute force – is indispensable to women. Charm is a womans strength just as strength is a mans charm. – Havelock Ellis

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power
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. – Havelock Ellis

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Happiness
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Music
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. – Paracelsus

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Music

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the worlds popular music is a good thing, for the most part. – David Byrne

Category:
Music

You cant imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. – Bob Dylan

Category:
Music

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream. – Arthur OShaughnessy

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Music

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Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money. – Owen Laughlin

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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Truth

We must reject the idea that every time a laws broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. – Ronald Reagan

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Society

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. – Maurice Sendak

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Music