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

—Miguel de Unamuno

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About Miguel de Unamuno

Portrait of Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo ( OO-nə-MOO-noh, Spanish: [miˈɣel de unaˈmuno i ˈxuɣo, wnaˈmuno j -]; 29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher and academic. His major philosophical essay was Tragic Sense of Life (1913), and his most famous novels were Abel...

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Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

—Miguel de Unamuno

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

—Miguel de Unamuno

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

—Miguel de Unamuno

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Monetary donations to a spiritual cause, contributions of physical labor, involvement with a particular guru, none of these necessarily mean that we have actually committed ourselves to openness. More likely these kinds of commitments are simply ways of proving that we have joined the side of "right.

—Chögyam Trungpa

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

—Oliver Herford

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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

—Pema Chödrön

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I deserve passion. I deserve to be loved—in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

—Loretta Chase in Silk Is For Seduction

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