It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism, of physiological or pathological origin... that makes our ideas. (Miguel de Unamuno)

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism, of physiological or pathological origin... that makes our ideas.

Miguel de Unamuno

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