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" The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. "

George Santayana

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" The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. "

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

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" If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. "

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