Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

George Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-American poet and philosopher [Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruíz de Santayana y Borrás]

“Aversion from Platonism” (1914-18), Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, #5 (1922)
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