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The first duty of a man is to think for himself


José Martí

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F. SIONIL JOSé We were fascinated by the little glass spheres, by those dark waves of color, some narrow and drawn ...
JOSé MARíA ARGUEDAS (...) porque la memoria, como aprendí por mí mismo, es indispensable para que se pueda no sólo me...
JOSé CARDOSO PIRES Sólo mediante la información que poseemos, incorporada a nuestro organismo, sean los esquemas inna...
JOSé ANTONIO MARINA -A pesar de nuestros pobres esfuerzos, el limbo debe estar lleno de chinos, ¿no cree usted?
-Y...
CAMILO JOSé CELA I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on t...
JOSé LUíS PEIXOTO Quando vires os teus olhos a verem-te, quando não souberes se tu és tu ou se o teu reflexo no espe...
JOSé LUíS PEIXOTO Hoje, preciso de ti. Depois de nós, nesse tempo, houve uma verdade que ficou parada nos meus olhos:...
JOSé LUíS PEIXOTO Sempre gostei de procurar livros, não quero saber onde estão, basta-me saber que existem.
JOSé LUíS PEIXOTO O tempo faz com que deixe de haver diferenças entre a verdade e a mentira. Aquilo que aconteceu mis...
JOSé LUíS PEIXOTO Hay que cumplir con la tarea de vivir de tal forma que cuando nos vayamos, hasta el dueño de la fun...
JOSé MADERO VIZCAíNO No hereden el odio. Después de cuanto acaba de pasar (las infinitas matanzas, los campos de extermi...
JOSé EMILIO PACHECO Nothing happened today. I slept.
While asleep I dreamed that I was sleeping.
JOSé EDUARDO AGUALUSA Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man.
JOSé N. HARRIS We speak the truth because we live in truth.
JOSé LUIS RUIZ Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a m...
PHILIP JOSé FARMER Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man c...
PHILIP JOSé FARMER Shit!" I shouted at him. "Now listen, my friend. The youth have no role. They have no jobs. They hav...
F. SIONIL JOSé na hora de pôr a mesa, éramos cinco:
o meu pai, a minha mãe, as minhas irmãs
e eu. dep...
JOSé LUíS PEIXOTO المرء لا يعرف أبدا ما الذي يمثله للآخرين، ولا بأية وسيل...
JUAN JOSé MILLáS As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to ...
JOSé RAMOS-HORTA Today she looked menacingly into the mirror and said: “I’m Sierra María Santiago. I am what I a...
DANIEL JOSé OLDER For some people, promises define who they are- their character, respect for themselves and others, a...
JOSé N. HARRIS Our doubts can be traitors that make us lose out on all the goodness we are capable of having in our...
JOSé N. HARRIS We hardly ever realize it, that we have the ability to cut anything out of our lives, any pain, any ...
JOSé N. HARRIS You shouldn't really expect anything out of a relationship, if you aren't willing to put anything in...
JOSé N. HARRIS You are my sunrise
and my sunset and the
warmth between the two
JOSé N. HARRIS Today might be the best day of my life!
JOSé N. HARRIS Writing about myself (in MI VIDA), has given me a feeling that I had never had before- that the past...
JOSé N. HARRIS Time...
Disguised gently as the warm glow of your love’s kiss,
Can turn grief into beau...
JOSé N. HARRIS Most people know that when we are faced with an immediate perceived “threat,” adrenaline kicks i...
JOSé N. HARRIS Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET You can't the answer if you don't know the question.
JOSé BRAULIO BATISTA MENDOZA On the Bigotry of Culture:
: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET Desde el siglo XVI ha entrado la humanidad toda en un proceso gigantesco de unificación, que en nue...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET You can't find an answer to an unknown question.
JOSé BRAULIO BATISTA MENDOZA And such in fact is the behaviour of the specialist. In politics, in art, in social usages, in the o...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET ... every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vital...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fight...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET A diferencia del poeta moderno, no vive aquejado por el ansia de originalidad. Sabe que su canto no ...
JOSé ORTEGA Y GASSET Your present is only a pile of steps you have taken. To define your future, you just have to choose ...
PAULO JOSé DA SILVA CARVALHO