Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern 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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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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 generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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