There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLiterature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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