We cannot put off living until we are ready. ✨ 'Misión de …

Jose Ortega y Gasset
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We cannot put off living until we are ready. ✨ 'Misión de la Universidad' ('Mission of the University'). Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, translated by Howard Lee Nostrand, p. 73, 1946.
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We cannot put off living until we are ready. ✨ 'Misión de la Universidad' ('Mission of the University'). Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, translated by Howard Lee Nostrand, p. 73, 1946.

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