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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
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
University Teacher
Writer
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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Abstention
Men
Shatter
Negation
Affirmation
Everywhere
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Faith

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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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