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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
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
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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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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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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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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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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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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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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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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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