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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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.
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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