John Galsworthy on Anniversary
1867–1933 England
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6 quotes
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. We have to love because we love loving.
A Bit O' Love (1915)
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
Saint's Progress (1919)
Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
Beyond (1917)
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
Beyond (1917)
Life was to be lived — not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love — to be enjoyed!
The Dark Flower (1913)
Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men — all this was precious to her beyond everything.
Beyond (1917)