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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.
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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Philosopher
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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The devil is an angel too.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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