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 GALSWORTHYLife calls the tune, we dance.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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