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.
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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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