"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.“


-George Santayana

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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

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