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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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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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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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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Was man made for science, or was science made for man?
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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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