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“The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.”

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G. K. Chesterton

Twelve Types (1903) "Sir Walter Scott"

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

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G. K. Chesterton

“Fiction means the common things as seen by the uncommon people. Fairy tales mean the uncommon things as seen by the common people.”

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G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens

Quelle: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 4 : "The Pickwick Papers"

“Round the birth of "Pickwick" broke one of those literary quarrels that were too common in the life of Dickens.... He turned people into mortal enemies whom he might have turned very easily into immortal jokes.”

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G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens

Quelle: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 4 : "The Pickwick Papers"

“We are then able to answer in some manner the question, "Why have we no great men?" We have no great men chiefly because we are always looking for them. We are connoisseurs of greatness, and connoisseurs can never be great; we are fastidious, that is, we are small. When Diogenes went about with a lantern looking for an honest man, I am afraid he had very little time to be honest himself. And when anybody goes about on his hands and knees looking for a great man to worship, he is making sure that one man at any rate shall not be great.”

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G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens

Quelle: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"

“One of the actual and certain consequences of the idea that all men are equal is immediately to produce very great men.”

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G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens

Quelle: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"

“For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value in any of them is that they bear the image of the King.... It has often been said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”

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G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens

Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Charles Dickens (1906)