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“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

“What is the life of a human being—a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“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 is his greatness. Caesar and Napoleon put all their genius into being heard of, and they were heard of. He puts all his genius into not being heard of, and he is not heard of. But you cannot be for five minutes in the room with him without feeling that Caesar and Napoleon would have been children in his hands”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“the crowd of Joseph Chamberlains (a solemn thought)”
― 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

“Bull, you are a man of science. Grub in the roots of those trees and find out the truth about them. Syme, you are a poet. Stare at those morning clouds. But I tell you this, that you will have found out the truth of the last tree and the top-most cloud before the truth about me”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“What are we going to do?" asked the Professor.
"At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“I have wondered,' said the Marquis, taking a great bite out of a slice of bread and jam, 'whether it wouldn't be better for me to do it with a knife. Most of the best things have been brought off with a knife. And it would be a new emotion to get a knife into a French President and wriggle it around.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“Along and marshong, indeed. It would be more creditable to you, I think, to let other people allong and marshong about their lawful business, instead of shutting 'em up in quarantine!"
"Tiresome enough," said the other. "But we shall be out today."
"Out to-day!" repeated the first. "It's almost of an aggravation of the enormity, that we shall be out to-day. Out! What have we ever been in for?”
― Charles Dickens , Little Dorrit

“Here is no number," said Arthur looking over it.
"No anything! The very name of the street may have been floating in the air; for, as I tell you, none of my people can say where they got it from.”
― Charles Dickens