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" The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. "

George Santayana

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" The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. "

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" The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. "

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" Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. "

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" To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. "

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" That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. "

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" The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. "

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" When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. "

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