Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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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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 sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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