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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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Love
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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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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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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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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
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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.
Jose Ortega y Gasset in
Life
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