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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
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 more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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