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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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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.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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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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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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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 tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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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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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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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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