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The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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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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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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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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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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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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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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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