Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONProgress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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