Saturday, December 20, 2008

Paradox...

"There is but one answer, and I am sorry if you don't like it. If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to life that a pistol is still as exciting to him as it is to a schoolboy. It is just because he does not want to steal, because he does not covet his neighbour's goods, that he has captured the trick (oh, how we all long for it!), the trick of coveting his own goods. It is just because he does not want to commit adultery that he achieves the romance of sex; it is just because he loves one wife that he has a hundred honeymoons. If he had really murdered a man, if he had really deserted a woman, he would not be able to feel that a pistol or a love-letter was like a song-- at least, not a comic song."

-Manalive by G.K. Chesterton

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Friday Quote

JMJ
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There will be a new post soon, but for now I leave you with a quote:

"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."
--Anonymous (I.C.)