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QUOTATION: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 have.
ATTRIBUTION:José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955), Spanish essayist, philosopher. “Historical Reason,” no. 4 (Buenos Aires, Oct. 1940).

Ortega first used this quote in a lecture given in 1916.
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