Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know … - Havelock Ellis

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When I write my annual tax column, some ex-IRS agent will complain, "There you go IRS bashing again. " They're always saying that they're just doing their job. Someone I know once said, "You could get another job. "

Havelock Ellis

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

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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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