The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dom…

George Santayana
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The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words. ✨ George Santayana (1970). Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe, p.151, Library of Alexandria
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