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The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

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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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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