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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
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What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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