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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana
Summer, Nature, Fate
George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

George Santayana
Fate, Justice, World
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.67, 谷月社

The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.

George Santayana
Fate, Artist, Men
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.357, 谷月社

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

George Santayana
Fate, Perfect, Lines
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.17, MIT Press

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