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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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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.
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