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Charm is a product of the unexpected. ↗

— Jose Marti

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It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you. ↗

— Jose Marti

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The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women. ↗

— Jose Marti

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To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. ↗

— 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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Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. ↗

— Jose Marti

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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. ↗

— 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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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men. ↗

— Jose Marti

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