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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.
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
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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