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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

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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