«Se desço ao meu coração, encontro cinzas e uma lareira extinta. O vulcão cumpriu seu incêndio e dele apenas restam o calor e a lava que se agitam à … - Miguel de Unamuno

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«Se desço ao meu coração, encontro cinzas e uma lareira extinta. O vulcão cumpriu seu incêndio e dele apenas restam o calor e a lava que se agitam à superfície, e, quando tudo se houver gelado e as coisas se houverem cumprido, nada mais restará - uma indefínivel lembrança como que de algo que pudesse ter sido e que não foi - a lembrança dos meios que deveriam ter sido empregues para a felicidade e que se deixaram perdidos na inércia dos desejõs titânicos escorraçados de dentro de nós, sem que tão-pouco tivessem podido chegar cá fora, que minaram a alma de esperanças, de ansiedades, de votos sem fruto... e depois nada», Mazzini era um desterrado, um desterrado da eternidade.

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About Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.

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Native Name: Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Alternative Names: Miguel Unamuno
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The truth is that my work — I was going to say my mission — is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

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? And therefore when we pray to Him, and cause canticles and hymns to rise to Him, is it not that we may lull Him to sleep, rocking the cradle of His dreams? Is not the whole liturgy, of all religions, only a way perhaps of soothing God in His dreams, so that He shall not wake and cease to dream us?

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