For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove has no age, no limit; and no death.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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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 an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
JOHN GALSWORTHY