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Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
Jose Marti
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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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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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The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.
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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.
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Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.
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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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Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
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To Educate is to Free.
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Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
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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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Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
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Strength comes from waiting.
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The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
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It is the duty of man to raise up man.
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Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
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Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
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Oh, what company good poets are!
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Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
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The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
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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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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.
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