Quotes by Miguel De Unamuno

Essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher, born thursday september 29, 1864 in Bilbao, Biscay (Spain), died thursday december 31, 1936 in Salamanca, Salamanca, Castile and León (Spain)

And love, above all when it struggles against destiny, overwhelms us with the feeling of the vanity of this world of appearances and gives us a glimpse of another world, in which destiny is overcome and liberty is law.
Miguel De Unamuno
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    But the capacity to enjoy is impossible without the capacity to suffer; and the faculty of enjoyment is one with that of pain. Whosoever does not suffer does not enjoy, just as whosoever is insensible to cold is insensible to heat.
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      Little can be hoped for from a ruler, who has not at some time or other been preoccupied, even if only confusedly, with the first beginning and ultimate end of all things, and above all of man, with the why of his origin and the wherefore of his destiny.
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        I am the center of my universe, the center of the universe, and in my supreme anguish I cry with Michelet, Mon moi, ils m'arrachent mon moi! What is a man profited if he shall gain the world and lose his own soul?
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