“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
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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.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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