White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Absence Affirmative Almost Black Colour Colours Definite Fierce God Had He Many Mere Never Paints Red Said Shining Thing White

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