“and inconvenience, as i have said, is only one aspect, and that the most unimaginative and accidental aspect of a really romantic situation. an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” - all things considered, gk chesterton
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“the philosopher may sometimes love the infinite; the poet always loves the finite. for him the great moment is not the creation of light, but the creation of the sun and moon.” - the man who was thursday, gk chesteron
“shall i tell you the secret of the whole universe? it is that we have only known the back of the world. we see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. that is not a tree, but the back of a tree. that is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? if we could only get round in front—” - the man who was thursday, gk chesterton
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“what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad.” - napoleon of notting hill, gk chesterton
“no man who is in love thinks that anyone has been in love before. no woman who has a child thinks that there have been such things as children. no people that fight for their own city are haunted with the burden of broken empires. yes … the world is always the same, for it is always unexpected.” - napoleon of notting hill, gk chesterton
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“there is at the back of all our lives an abyss of light, more blinding and unfathomable than any abyss of darkness; and it is the abyss of actuality, of existence, of the fact that things truly are, and that we ourselves are incredibly and sometimes almost incredulously real.” - chaucer, gk chesterton
“for the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point— and does not break.” - orthodoxy, gk chesterton
“it is possible that God says every morning, “do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “do it again” to the moon. it may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.” - orthodoxy, g. k. chesterton
“the goodness of the fairy tale was not affected by the fact that there might be more dragons than princesses; it was good to be in a fairy tale.” - orthodoxy, gk chesterton
