Miguel de Unamuno
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"Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo" was a Spanish people/Spanish essayist, novelist, poetry/poet, theatre/playwright, philosopher, and Greek professor and later rector at the University of Salamanca.

His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), and his most famous novel was Abel Sánchez/Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917), a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story.

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

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

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

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

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

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.