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Quote by Jose Marti
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who d

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggars smile from the scorn of free men. – Jose Marti

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A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. – Jose Marti

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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. – Jose Marti

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The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriates career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. – Paul Theroux

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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America — as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and were rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. – Italo Calvino

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For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. – Oscar Wilde

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