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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
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.
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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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Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
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Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
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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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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
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The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
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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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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.
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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
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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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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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