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 GALSWORTHYThere are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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We have to love because we love loving.
JOHN GALSWORTHY