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The true object of human life is play.
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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Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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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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Whatever the word great means, Dickens was what it means.
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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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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
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Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
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He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.
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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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