A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

José Martí · On Oscar Wilde (1882)

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

José Martí · Three Heroes (1889)

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

José Martí · Dedication of the Statue of Liberty (1887)

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So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

Victor Hugo · Les Misérables (1862), preface

"The king died and then the queen died" is a story. "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a plot.

E. M. Forster · Aspects of the Novel (1927)

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Emily Brontë · Catherine to Nelly Dean in the same chapter 9 speech, a moment before "Nelly, I am Heathcliff!"; the sentence before it says her love for Linton "is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it".

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“A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.”

“Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.”

“A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.”

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”

“"The king died and then the queen died" is a story. "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a plot.”

“My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”