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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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 free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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I will go forth as a real outlaw, he said, and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway and it will be counted a wilder crime.
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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
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Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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The aim of life is appreciation there is no sense in not appreciating things and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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The moderns do not realize modernity.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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