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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
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The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
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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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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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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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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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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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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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