Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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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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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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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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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.
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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
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Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.