“I do not understand these men who tell me that the prospect of the yonder side of death has never tormented them, that the thought of their own annihilation never disquiets them. For my part I do not wish to make peace between my heart and my head, between my faith and my reason — I wish rather that there should be war between them.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VI : In the Depths of the Abyss

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19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864–1936

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