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“An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. He sees how much more valuable is one burst of blazing light, one peal of perfect thunder, than the mere common bodies of a few shapeless policemen. An artist disregards all governments, abolishes all conventions. The poet delights in disorder only. If it were not so, the most poetical thing in the world would be the Underground Railway.'
'So it is,' said Mr. Syme.
'Nonsense!' said Gregory, who was very rational when any one else attempted paradox.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“That's what Brother Gogol does. He goes about on his hands and knees with such inexhaustible diplomacy, that by this time he finds it quite difficult to walk upright”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“I’m left with one consolation, small though it may be: my fountain pen was cremated, just as I would like to be some day.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

“the crowd of Joseph Chamberlains (a solemn thought)”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare