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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
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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