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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls but they are the walls of a playground.
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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