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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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