| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43065 |
| QUOTATION: | Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955), Spanish essayist, philosopher. repr. In The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays (1968). “In Search of Goethe from Within,” Partisan Review (New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 1949). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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