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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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The devil is an angel too.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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