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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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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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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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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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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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