“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Little Essays (1921), p. 107
“Ah, cruel 'tis to love,
And cruel not to love,
But cruelest of all
To love and love in vain.”
— Anacreon
Odes, XXIX. (XXVII.), 1.
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