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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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Poet
Politician
University Teacher
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