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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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 should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot the average man is a serf.
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
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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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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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