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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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Bread
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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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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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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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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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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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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