To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. ~ José Martí (born January 28, 1853)
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. ~ Colette
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ~ Colette
We only do well the things we like doing. ~ Colette
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. ~ Colette
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. ~ Colette
| Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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- 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
| Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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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.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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| The conceited villager believes the entire world to be his village. Provided that he can be mayor, humiliate the rival who stole his sweetheart, or add to the savings in his strongbox, he considers the universal order good, unaware of those giants with seven-league boots who can crush him underfoot, or of the strife in the heavens between comets that go through the air asleep, gulping down worlds.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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| There are men who live contented through they live without decorum. Others suffer as if in agony when they see around them people living without decorum. There must be a certain amount of decorum in the world, just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without decorum, there are always others who themselves possess the decorum of many men. These are the ones who rebel with terrible strength against those who rob nations of their liberty, which is to rob men of their decorum. Embodied in those men are thousands of men, a whole people, human dignity.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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| In truth, men speak too much of danger. Let others be terrified by the natural and healthy risks of life! We shall not be frightened! Poison sumac grows in a hard-working man's field, the serpent hisses from its hidden den, and the owl's eye shines in the belfry, but the sun goes on lighting the sky, and truth continues marching across the earth unscathed.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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| Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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| A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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| He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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| Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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| Absolute ideas must take relative forms if they are not to fail because of an error in form. Freedom, to be viable, has to be sincere and complete. If a republic refuses to open its arms to all, and move ahead with all, it dies.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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| The soul, equal and eternal, emanates from bodies of different shapes and colors. Whoever foments and spreads antagonism and hate between the races, sins against humanity.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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| Whoever brushes aside even a part of the truth, whether through intention or oversight, is doomed to fall. The truth he lacks thrives on negligence, and brings down whatever is built without it. It is easy to resolve our problem knowing its components than resolve them without knowing them.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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- 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
| 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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| ~ José Martí ~
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- 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
| Peace demands of Nature the recognition of human rights; discrimination is contrary to Nature and to the enemy of peace.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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| It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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| ~ José Martí ~
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- 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.