Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about s…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.198, Simon and Schuster
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.
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.42, Simon and Schust … ▶
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. ✨ 1908 Orthodoxy, ch.3.
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

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