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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
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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It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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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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