Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONArt is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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