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Gilbert K Chesterton
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything
Rounds Quotes
Fraud makes the world go round.
Erotic Quotes
The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.
It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.
Artist Quotes
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.