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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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The devil is an angel too.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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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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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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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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