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Fairy tales are more than true.
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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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.
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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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Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.
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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.
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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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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.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something but you can be discontented with everything.
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