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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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