Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Looking 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.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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 is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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