The genius of happiness is ...

The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.
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 Ellen Key

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The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.
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The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
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The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
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