Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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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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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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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