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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Entirely Men School Stake
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
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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Christian Order Running
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Matter Want Writing
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
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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Art Brain Spiritual
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Catholic Glasses Wine
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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