It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

G.K. Chesterton

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We shall have gone deeper than the deeps of heaven and grown older than the oldest angels before we feel, even in its first faint vibrations, the everlasting violence of that double passion with which God hates and loves the world.

G.K. Chesterton

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I know he is really happy, and yet I can never catch him at it.

G.K. Chesterton

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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

G.K. Chesterton

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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

G.K. Chesterton

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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

G.K. Chesterton

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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

G.K. Chesterton

Mots clés humor war irish song

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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

G.K. Chesterton

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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

G.K. Chesterton

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

G.K. Chesterton

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