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The White Monkey (The Forsyte Chronicles, #4) QUOTES

The White Monkey (The Forsyte Chronicles, #4) QUOTES

1 " Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from. "

― John Galsworthy , The White Monkey (The Forsyte Chronicles, #4)

2 " Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it. "

― John Galsworthy , The White Monkey (The Forsyte Chronicles, #4)

3 " And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted! "

― John Galsworthy , The White Monkey (The Forsyte Chronicles, #4)

4 " That tendency...to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic. "

― John Galsworthy , The White Monkey (The Forsyte Chronicles, #4)

5 " He won't be happy till he gets it," said Michael, at last: "The only thing is, you see, he doesn't know what IT is. "

― John Galsworthy , The White Monkey (The Forsyte Chronicles, #4)

6 " Get Up! Go out! Do something! But what - what was worth doing? What had any meaning in it? She saw herself doing - extravagant things; nursing sick women; tending pale babies; making a speech in Parliament; riding a steeplechase; hoeing turnips in knickerbockers - decorative. And she lay perfectly still, bound by the filaments of her self-vision. So long as she saw herself she would do nothing - she knew it - for nothing would be worth doing! And it seemed to her, lying there so still, that not to see herself would be worse than anything. And she felt that to feel this was to acknowledge herself caged for ever. "

― John Galsworthy , The White Monkey (The Forsyte Chronicles, #4)

7 " Mechanism! Everywhere – mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from. "

― John Galsworthy , The White Monkey (The Forsyte Chronicles, #4)