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"Of all of GK's "collected works", this is the least difficult to read, for a great part of the essays is about his trip around Europe. The difference between the foreign countries was obvious enough to draw simple, amusing philosophic conclusions. The book is also a window to GK's favorite things:
-The winter season
-Railway stations
-FRANCE, French history (warts and all)
-travelling (in order to come home)" — Sep 24, 2016 08:48AM
"Of all of GK's "collected works", this is the least difficult to read, for a great part of the essays is about his trip around Europe. The difference between the foreign countries was obvious enough to draw simple, amusing philosophic conclusions. The book is also a window to GK's favorite things:
-The winter season
-Railway stations
-FRANCE, French history (warts and all)
-travelling (in order to come home)" — Sep 24, 2016 08:48AM
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"Don't be fooled by the title of this book. I ignored this book because I thought it's just all kinds of pretty anecdotes regarding St. Francis. The first quarter of this book relies heavily on the MEDIEVAL background of St. Francis Assisi that you would think you're reading a history book" — Feb 29, 2020 05:26AM
"Don't be fooled by the title of this book. I ignored this book because I thought it's just all kinds of pretty anecdotes regarding St. Francis. The first quarter of this book relies heavily on the MEDIEVAL background of St. Francis Assisi that you would think you're reading a history book" — Feb 29, 2020 05:26AM
There is something of a harmony between the hearth and the firelight and my own first pleasure in his words about the brother fire;
“It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
― The Everlasting Man
― The Everlasting Man
“There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.”
― The Napoleon of Notting Hill
― The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.”
― The Everlasting Man
― The Everlasting Man
“It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.”
― Complete Stories and Poems
― Complete Stories and Poems
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