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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
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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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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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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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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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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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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
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