Quote#Truth
Truth, to the human consciousness at least, is but that vitally just…
Quote byJohn Galsworthy · 1867–1933
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Preface to Villa Rubein and Other Stories (1923).
English (original)
Truth, to the human consciousness at least, is but that vitally just relation of part to whole which is the very condition of life itself. And the task before the imaginative writer, whether at the end of the last century or all these aeons later, is the presentation of a vision which to eye and ear and mind has the implicit proportions of Truth.
— John Galsworthy
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