The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.George Santayana
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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence.
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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