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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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The devil is an angel too.
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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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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
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