Jose Marti Quotes - Page 3

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• Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

  Jose Marti

  Ideas, Mistress, Bed

  Jose Marti's letter, 1890.

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• Charm is a product of the unexpected.

  Jose Marti

  Unexpected, Charm, Products

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• No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

  Jose Marti

  Earth, Rivals, Fruit

  Jose Marti (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.277, Penguin

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• The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

  Jose Marti

  Freedom, Names, Liberty

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• Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.

  Jose Marti

  Sweet, Hate, People

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• Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

  Jose Marti

  Justice, Diversity, Enemy

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• He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

  Jose Marti

  Office, Thieves, Use

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• Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

  Jose Marti

  Wine, Identity, Bitter

  "US and Cuba keep their distance" by Stephen Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2009.

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• Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Order, Needs

  "Vivir en Sí [To Live in Oneself]". Essay by Jose Marti, 1891.

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

  Jose Marti

  Liberty, Speak, Without You

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• Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

  Jose Marti

  Fire, Hatred, Abjection

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• America is a land of creators and rebels.

  Jose Marti

  Land, America, Rebel

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

  Jose Marti

  Struggle, Heart, Support

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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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

  Together, Privilege, Strive

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

  Jose Marti

  Light, May, Bread

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

  Jose Marti

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  "On Oscar Wilde". Essay by Jose Marti, 1882.

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

  Jose Marti

  Torches, Pairs, Stoops

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

  Jose Marti

  Children, Honesty, Men

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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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

  Beautiful, Men, Greek

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

  Jose Marti

  Spiritual, Real, Men

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• A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

  Jose Marti

  Children, Men, Thinking

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• My poems are like a dagger
  Sprouting flowers from the hilt;
  My poetry is like a fountain
  Sprinkling streams of coral water.

  Jose Marti

  Flower, Water, Daggers

  "Simple Verses". Book by Jose Marti, 1891.

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• A selfish man is a thief.

  Jose Marti

  Selfish, Men, Thieves

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos". Book by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.

  Jose Marti

  Country, Order, Balance

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• Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

  Jose Marti

  Love Is, Men, Ties

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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