José Ortega y Gasset quote: The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology ...

The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.

~ José Ortega y Gasset ~

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