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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for 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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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
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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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Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
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No man can be merry unless he is serious.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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