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The devil is an angel too.

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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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