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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)

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
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
University Teacher
Writer
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
Feel
Feels
Think
Thinking
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Translated
Intellectual
Emotional

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Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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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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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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