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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

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
Writer
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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 tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Dream abides it is the only things that abides vision abides.
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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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