"An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."
-Jose Ortega y Gasset
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"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
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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."
-Jose Ortega y Gasset
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"Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved."
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"Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
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"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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