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G. K. Chesterton - The Everlasting Man (1925)

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About sex especially men are born unbalanced; we might almost say men are born mad. They scarcely reach sanity till they reach sanctity.

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A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

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There may be a broken trail of stones and bones faintly suggesting the development of the human body. There is nothing even faintly suggesting such a development of this human mind.

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Born: May 29, 1874
Died: June 14, 1936 (aged 62)
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