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The supreme adventure is being BORN
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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
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To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
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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.
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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