Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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