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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. – George Santayana

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana

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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. – Samuel Alexander

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My films dont give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that theyve really been through something. – Andrea Arnold

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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. – John le Carre

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To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear Gods responses. – Charles Stanley

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A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. – The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams

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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music. – Andy Summers

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