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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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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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Is there anything more terrible than a call? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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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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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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