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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
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I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
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