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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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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White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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