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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

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Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

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What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

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Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.

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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

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