For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are not living in a private world of our own.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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