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The aim of life is appreciation there is no sense in not appreciating things and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
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The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree the poetry of love in following the single woman the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.
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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
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