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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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.
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Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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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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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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