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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
Essayist
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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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