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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
John Galsworthy
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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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Kingston
John Sinjohn
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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