«Neither, then, does the vital desire for human immortality find rational confirmation, nor does reason give us the incentive and consolation of life and its true purpose. But behold, at the bottom of the abyss there are sentimental and volitional despair and rational skepticism face to face, and they embrace each other as brothers. And it will be from this embrace, a tragic embrace, that is to say, deeply loving from which the spring of life will spring, a serious and terrible life».

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Miguel de Unamuno

Letter about the longing for immortality

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