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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYNot 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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