Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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