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 GALSWORTHYWe have to love because we love loving.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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