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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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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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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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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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