It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a … - John Galsworthy

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When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.

John Galsworthy

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.

May, Men, Motionless, Painful, Spring, Yearning

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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.

Air, Condition, Feet, Smither, Soul, Wine

The bicycle. . . has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language. . . equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.

Blossomed, Four, Influence, Sex, Strong, Weekend

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.

Indescribing, Not Good Enough, People, Sensations, State, Time

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

Biggest, Done, Life, Life Is, Tragedy

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

Actions, Done, Men, Motivational, Nothing