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“Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.”

"Indolence of the Filipino" in La Solidaridad (1890)

“The sea, the sea is everything! Its sovereign mass
brings to me atoms of a myriad faraway lands;
Its bright smile animates me in the limpid mornings
And when at the end of day my faith has failed me
My heart echoes the sound of its sorrow in the sands.”

José Rizal

"Mi Retiro", st.6 - translated by Nick Joaquin.

“Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight,
To die to give you life, to rest under your sky;
And in your enchanted land forever sleep.”

José Rizal

"Mi Ultimo Adios", st. 5

“it is finished”

José Rizal

José Rizal's last words, quoted by Austin Coates, in Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr, Oxford University Press, (1968)
Original: (la) Consummatum est