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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view as to knowing her through and through that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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