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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.

John Galsworthy

Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Built Consequences Mariage Society
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Age Death Limit Love No
The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Bridge Building Demolition Finish House Novel Voyage Writing
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 GALSWORTHY

Art Away Enfranchisement Itch Minute Profound Relaxation Secret Stolen
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Beginning Ending Human
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cigar Smoke Compose Love Men Shall Soul Texture
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Against Blue Dark Flame Guardian Moomin Passionate Peak Snowy Treemstand
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Country Describing Enough Get Good Ink Movement Penultimate People Person Physical Place Sensation Spend State Time To
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Country Deprive Evolve Himself Life Living Man People Person Power Queer Thing
A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Bloom Blossom Flower Garden Plant Wild
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Adore Dog Eyes Feel Moment Precious Really Think
For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Digestion Empicipation Equality Influence Language Leg Profession Strong Weekend Word
Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Footstep Grass Soundless Summer
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Dismounted End Man September South Square Tax Youg

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