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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Women are the only realists their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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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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There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.
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Comradeship is obvious and universal and open but it is only one kind of affection it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The moderns do not realize modernity.
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Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
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