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 GALSWORTHYThe young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHY