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The Tragic Sense of Life Quotes

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. - Miguel de Unamuno (The Tragic Sense of Life Quotes)

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.[Los que creemos móviles de nuestra conducta no suelen ser sino pretextos.]

Source:(ed. 1921), Chaptep XI. The Practical Problem, page 261
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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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