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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch 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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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
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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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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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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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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.
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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
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