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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
Essayist
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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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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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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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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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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 less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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