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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
Literary Critic
Mathematician
Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Sociologist
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University Teacher
Madrid
Spain
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Adolescence
Thus
Poetry
Fermented
Preserved
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
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All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
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The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.
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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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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
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Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
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Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
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The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
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The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
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The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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