And the other Don Quixote remained here among us, fighting with desperation. And does he not fight out of despair? ...But "despair is the master of p… - Miguel de Unamuno

And he arrives at the cogito ergo sum, which St. Augustine had already anticipated... "I think therefore I am," can only mean "I think, therefore I am a thinker"; this being of "I am," which is deduced from "I think," is merely a knowing; this being is a knowledge, but not life. And the primary reality is not that I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think. Although this living may not be a real living. God! what contradictions when we seek to join in wedlock life and reason!

Vienen los días y van los días y el amor queda. Allá dentro, muy dentro, en las entrañas de las cosas, se rozan y friegan la corriente de este mundo con la contraria corriente del otro, y de este roce y friega viene el más triste y el más dulce de los dolores: el de vivir.

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.