Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
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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
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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