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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Sastra adalah sebuah kemewahan, fiksi adalah sebuah kebutuhan.
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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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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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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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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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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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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
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