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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Miguel de Unamuno was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.

Writer | Spanish

Born: 1864-09-29 in Bilbao, Spain

Died: December 31, 1936 in Salamanca, Spain

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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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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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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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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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

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That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

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