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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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