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Day and night I always dream with open eyes.

— José Martí

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Notes from Wikiquote

As quoted in Great Hispanic-Americans (2005) by Nicolás Kanellos, Robert Rodriguez and Tamra Orr, p. 72

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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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In night's darkness I've seen
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Once I reveled in a destiny
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when the warden — reading
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all is music and reason,
and all, like diamond,
is carbon first, then light.

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