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Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. - Miguel de Unamuno (The Tragic Sense of Life Quotes)

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.[El dolor es la sustancia de la vida y la raíz de la personalidad, pues sólo sufriendo se es persona.]

Source:(ed. 1921), Chaptep IX. Faith, Hope, and Charity, page 205
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Miguel de Unamuno (The Tragic Sense of Life Quotes)
  • Book: The Tragic Sense of Life
  • Writer: Miguel de Unamuno
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Published: 1912
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