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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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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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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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.
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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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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
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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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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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The only object of liberty is life.
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