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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

We shall have gone deeper than the deeps of heaven and grown older than the oldest angels before we feel, even in its first faint vibrations, the everlasting violence of that double passion with which God hates and loves the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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