About This Quote
George Santayana said, “Beneath history, memory and forgetting, life.” This quote is also known as the "Santayana's Fable." Santayana said that we cannot escape the past, because we are caught up in it and we can never fully forget it. Instead, we remember it and therefore live within it. However, the key to living is to move on and move forward. The quote itself is a reminder of the importance of looking forward instead of looking back.
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