An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Quote by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a...

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a...

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of...

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of...

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and...

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and...

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to...

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to...

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe...

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe...

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of...

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of...

To live is to feel oneself lost.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human...

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human...

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm...

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm...

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the...

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the...