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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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Heaven is to be at peace with things.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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