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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
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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Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
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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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There is no doubt even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
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