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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana
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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
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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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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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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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