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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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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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