How can I be both a cynic and a romantic?
Maybe Chesterton, along with some of the other authors I've been reading, would say that you cannot be one without the other. You must have high ideals before you can recognize how sadly this world shortfalls them.
Belief and Doubt are both extremes that coexist within the Christian faith according to Chesterton's Orthodoxy. I believe so much, but doubt so much in the same expansive breath. Maybe the difference isn't so contradictory as Prendergast of Waugh's Rise and Fall believes (see post below, quotation near the end of "All About Parker."
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What an interesting thought, that you can't be a cynic without also being a romantic. I think that somehow I hold both, too. I want to test that hypothesis against people I know.
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