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A friend's only gift is himself.

George Santayana

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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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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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The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
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