"I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA."

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Gustavo Perez Firmat

#Usa Quotes #Cuba Quotes #Born Quotes

“The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones”
“Time isnâ€™t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on timeâ€”past and futureâ€”the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
“Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.”

Source : James Aldrich, “A Death-Bed”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
“I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.”
“You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.”
“My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.”
“Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.”

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