Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Miguel de Unamuno

• Comedy
• Tragedy
• Eternity
• Essence
• Killing

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• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

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• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

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• To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

  

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• I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

  

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• Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

  

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• I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

  

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• I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

  

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• I always have to be writing.

  

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• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

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  • Life
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• I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.

  

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• I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

  

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• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  

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  • Long
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• I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

  

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  • People
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• Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

  

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• Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

  

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• No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

  

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• Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

  

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• A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

  

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• Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.

  

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• I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

  

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• In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

  

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• I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.

  

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• Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

  

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• And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy
  • Eternity