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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Art, like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
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The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
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Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.
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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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It is a great bond to dislike the same things.
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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
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I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
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Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863-1952), known as George Santayana, was born in Madrid, Spain, but spent most of his life in the United States and Europe. He was a prominent philosopher, poet, and literary critic. Educated at Harvard, Santayana became an influential figure in American thought, though often critical of its pragmatic tendencies. His philosophy, known as naturalism, sought to explain reality without recourse to supernatural causes. Notable works include "The Sense of Beauty," "The Life of Reason," and "Persons and Places." His lyrical prose and his reflections on culture, religion, and the human condition continue to be studied. He died in Rome, Italy.