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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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