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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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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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