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Through a marvelous law of natural compensation, he who gives of himself grows, and he who turns inward and lives from small pleasures, is afraid to share them with others, and only thinks avariciously of cultivating his appetites loses his humanity and becomes loneliness itself. He carries in his breast all the dreariness of winter. He becomes in fact and appearance an insect.
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I grow a white rose
In July just as in January
For the sincere friend
Who gives me his frank hand.
And for the cruel man who pulls out of me
the heart with which I live,
I grow neither nettles nor thorns:
I grow a white rose.
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Knowing is what counts. To know one's country and govern it with that knowledge is the only way to free it from tyranny.
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The vote is the most effective and merciful instrument that man has devised to manage his affairs.
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I wish to leave the world
By its natural door;
In my tomb of green leaves
They are to carry me to die.
Do not put me in the dark
To die like a traitor;
I am good, and like a good thing
I will die with my face to the sun.
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Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
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Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice — for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
January 28, 1853
Died:
May 19, 1895
(aged 42)
Bio:
José Julián Martí Pérez is a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature.
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