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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.

John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Kingston
John Sinjohn
Makes
Leaves
Motionless
May
Breathe
Breathes
Men
Painful
Ineffable
Embrace
Fling
Spring
Yearning
Arms
Sweetness
Stand
Longing
Looking
Grass

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