Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.Jose Ortega y Gasset
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
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To live is to feel oneself lost.
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Law is born from despair of human nature.
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Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
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