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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
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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White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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