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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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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Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.
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It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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One real world is enough.
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In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
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A friend's only gift is himself.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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