A Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset
The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
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Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.
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If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.
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I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. It's wrong to say "everybody," but in literature I see it all the time - preoccupation with it, philosophical preoccupation, in fact. That's a principle element of literature and philosophy, often cited as the main element, the only real element. I say give it up.
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We will pay the debts by growing and exporting... The only way is to export. The other channel has been exhausted, which is to borrow.
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