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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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 was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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