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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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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.
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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.
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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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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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