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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
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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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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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We are talking about an artist and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.
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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
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