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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSummer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHY