The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product. - Havelock Ellis

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What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world. . . . Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

Havelock Ellis

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Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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. . . aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.

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