Nov 21, 2015
Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. That is why, in spite of a hundred disadvantages, the world will always return to monogamy.
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, G. K. Chesterton
I’ve never read Chesterton before. But with every few pages or so, this book he hits me with a line like the one above that makes me desperately wish that I’ve been reading him for years.