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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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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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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 aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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