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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Age: 72 †
Born: 1883
Born: May 9
Died: 1955
Died: October 18
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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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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
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To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.
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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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We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
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Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that falling in love...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.
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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
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