| "Otros pueblos--y nosotros entre ellos--vivimos devorados por un sublime demonio interior, que nos empuja a la persecuci—n infatigable de un ideal de amor o gloria; y cuando asimos, con el placer con que se ase un águila, el grado del ideal que persegu’amos, nuevo afán nos inquieta, nueva ambici—n nos espolea, nueva aspiraci—n nos lanza a nuevo vehementr anhelo, y sale del águila presa una rebelde mariposa libre, como desafiándonos a seguirla y encadenándonos a su revuelto vuelo." |
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"Other peoples--we among them--live devoured by a sublime inner demon who pushes us tirelessly on in search of an ideal of love or glory. When we hold the measure of the ideal we were after, delighted as though we were holding an eagle, a new quest makes us restless, a new ambition spurs us, a new aspiration heads us toward a new vehement desire, and out of the captive eagle emerges a rebel free butterfly, daring us to follow it, chaining us to her circuitous flight."
--José Martí
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