Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
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Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.Jose Ortega y Gasset
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
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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.
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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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Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
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