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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes: To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
         

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.


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