Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
JOHN GALSWORTHYTo dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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