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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 pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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The devil is an angel too.
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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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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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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An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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