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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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The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.
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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
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