The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
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Life means to have something definite to do a mission to fulfill and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.José Ortega y Gasset
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
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
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The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.
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