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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
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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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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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The devil is an angel too.
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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