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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
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Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)
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A selfish man is a thief.
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To beautify life is to give it an object.
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I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.
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Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
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To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.
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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
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It is the duty of man to raise up man.
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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
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Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
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