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Miguel de Unamuno - It is the furious longing to give...

It is the furious longing to give finality to the Universe, to make it conscious and personal, that has brought us to believe in God, to wish that God may exist, to create God, in a word. (Miguel de Unamuno)

It is the furious longing to give finality to the Universe, to make it conscious and personal, that has brought us to believe in God, to wish that God may exist, to create God, in a word.

Miguel de Unamuno

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