Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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 by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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