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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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