Life calls the tune, we dance.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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