All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one aw…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.38, Simon and Schuster
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