Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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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.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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