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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
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
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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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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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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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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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Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
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Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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