the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
JOHN GALSWORTHYBy the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
JOHN GALSWORTHY