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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? ↗

— Yann Martel

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A selfish man is a thief. ↗

— Jose Marti

#man #selfish #selfish man #thief

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. ↗

— Jose Marti

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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. ↗

— Jose Marti

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To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. ↗

— Marcus Valerius Martial

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Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes. ↗

— Marcus Valerius Martial

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