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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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 modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
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Art is the signature of man.
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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
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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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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
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The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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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 true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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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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Life is not an illogicality yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden its wildness lies in wait.
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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.
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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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