Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDipsomaniac 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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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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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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