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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

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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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Art Away Enfranchisement Itch Minute Profound Relaxation Secret Stolen
Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Been Beyond Death Kill Love Measure Nearby Without
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Environ Hot Iron Meddle Peril See
For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Dompting Itch Ourselves Outside Previous Shut
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Beauty Complete Instinct Love Nothing One Really Satisfy Sex Union
It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Another Cement Continual Everlasting Feel However Human Life Onself Real Refreshment Replacement Unconscious
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Believe Circle Creed Enwrap Hand Humanism Men Mystery Own
Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Courtship Modern Take
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Dream Induldfe Life Little Must Forgive Poetry
A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Become Faith Man Modern Only Possible
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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House Limbo Pass Soul Time
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Argument Believe Dreadful Enough Familiar Maske None War
Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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Beneath Calm Careless Flash Hidden Moment Nature Ood Ordinary Passion Reveal Spring Violent
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Always Hear Last Talk
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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