The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recr…

George Santayana
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Understanding, p.320, 谷月社
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Heaven is to be at peace with things. ✨ George Santayana (1936). The philosophy of Santayana, Random House
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ✨ Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies War Shrines (1922)
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Understanding, p.320, 谷月社

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