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Quotes from Niebla [Mist — Miguel de Unamuno

1864–1936 Spain

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

Niebla [Mist (1914)

Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself — that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks — he lies to himself.

Niebla [Mist (1914)

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

Niebla [Mist (1914)

All of this that is happening to me, and happening to others about me, is it reality or is it fiction? May not all of it perhaps be a dream of God, or of whomever it may be, which will vanish as soon as He wakes?

Niebla [Mist (1914)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Miguel de Unamuno (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.