For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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