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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
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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Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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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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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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