To live is to feel oneself lost.
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José Ortega y Gasset Quote
“Human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic.”
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