And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
JOHN GALSWORTHYUnder 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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