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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
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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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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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Plato was right, but not quite right.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
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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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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
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