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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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 Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. 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.
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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.
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When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts its happy tales are of broken heads.
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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.
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