George Santayana Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Silence is my dignity.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
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I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.
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At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.
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Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
