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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

George Santayana
Death, Dark, Birth

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

George Santayana
Love, Death, Philosopher
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.146, Courier Corporation

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

George Santayana
Death, Evil, Dying
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.174, MIT Press

I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.

George Santayana
Death, Finals, Ends
George Santayana (2003). “The Works of George Santayana”

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