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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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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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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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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
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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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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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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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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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