The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
(Platonism and the Spiritual Life, 1927)
George Santayana
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Art like life should be free, since both are experimental. It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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