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Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

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Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

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The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

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The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

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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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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

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The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

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This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.

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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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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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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

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It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

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