The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.
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Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.Jose Ortega y Gasset
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
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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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Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
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He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new.
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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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