For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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 talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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