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 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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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