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" Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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" Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. "
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" Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. "
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" And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. "
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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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" Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. "
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" The present condition of fame is merely fashion. "
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" Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. "
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" A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. "
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" What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. "
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" Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. "
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" I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. "
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" The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. "
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" All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. "
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" Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. "
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" The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it. "
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" The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. "
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" Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. "
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" Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. "
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" White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. "
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