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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
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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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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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