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Love Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
- We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
- Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
- We cannot put off living until we are ready.
- The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
- All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another.
- For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
- Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
- Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
- I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe…
- Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa…
- Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.
- I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
- To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity.
- Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
- 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…
- I am I plus my circumstances.
- Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
- Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.
- In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours…
- History is the science of people.
- Man in a word has no nature; what he has. ..is history.
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