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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
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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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