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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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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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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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