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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.

John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
Novelist
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Kingston
John Sinjohn
People
Loving
Enough
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Something
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Life

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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands then he looked up, and my companion said: He's an angel!
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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