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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.
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
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Philosopher
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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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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