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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. To fulfill one's duty elevates the soul to a state of constant sweetness. Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

— José Martí Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

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Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.

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A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men.

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In night's darkness I've seen
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of beauty divine.

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Once I reveled in a destiny
like no other joy I'd known:
when the warden — reading
my death sentence — wept.

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All is beautiful and unceasing,
all is music and reason,
and all, like diamond,
is carbon first, then light.

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