To live is to feel oneself lost.
More Quotes from Jose Ortega y Gasset:
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.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafTs full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.
José Ortega y Gasset
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
José Ortega y Gasset
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