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 of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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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.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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