The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana
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- The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
- Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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