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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
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 strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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Science boasts of the distance of its stars of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is At Hand.
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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich and benefits nobody else.
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