It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYAnd 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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