the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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