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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Age: 72 †
Born: 1883
Born: May 9
Died: 1955
Died: October 18
Essayist
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Madrid
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-satisfied man.
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When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain, and, without further ado, give yourself the pleasure during a few hours or a few days of being Paleolithic.
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We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
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One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
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The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
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I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
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In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.
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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
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Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.
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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
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That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.
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tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
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