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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
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The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
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Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Jose Ortega y Gasset