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There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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 tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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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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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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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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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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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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