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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLooking 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.
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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Beginnings are always messy.
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