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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
         

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.


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