It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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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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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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 isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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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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