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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.
  Jose Ortega y Gasse...
• Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasse
• The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man. -- Jose Ortega y Gasse
• He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to u
  but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new....
• Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
  -- Jose Ortega Gasse...
• 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 Gasse...
• All we are given is possibilities -- to make ourselves one thing or another. -- Ortega y Gasse
• We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coercivene
  it is always urgent, here and now, without any possible postponement....